Weekends go way too fast when you work a cycle that divides life into work week and week end. And if you leave all of life to the week end, there is more lifeless week than lived week.
Just as people make a false division of life into sacred and secular, so I think there is a false division of life into work and leisure. All of it uses our creative energy, all of it should engage who and what we are. This doesn’t mean our work has to be something that fills out heart’s desire — it can just be something worthwhile to do. But what it does mean is that there is no way to build a wall between the two. One will invariably bleed into the other.
So while we may not live to work, we do work to live, and that work has to have a purpose that gives energy and strength to the rest of life that isn’t that work. And even work that is by nature worthwhile and edifying to the rest of life, can become draining to the rest of life, when it takes more than its fair share of time, talent and energy, or when strife and conflict in that work draw from the energy of the rest of life, instead of adding to it.
That is as far as my thought takes me today. What it means on what we should do and how we should think about our work and play, is a work in progress. For all of us.
At The Rainbow 