When Work Rhymes with Pleasure!
5 May 2009
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According to a common belief, work is a constraining and painful necessity, while leisure is synonymous with freedom, a factor in achieving one's aspirations... but can't work also be a factor of freedom and fulfillment?
Work is a vital necessity in the sense that it is a matter of survival, to meet one's physical (food) and material needs. Often, work is also presented as a duty, to oneself and to others, and it avoids vice and boredom in addition to need.
Unlike work, leisure has no purpose other than itself; it is synonymous with distraction, amusement, and leads to nothing more than instant pleasure.
Can't work be synonymous with leisure?
Indeed, work can and should be (as much as possible) a source of pleasure. When one has truly chosen their job, one works for pleasure, for passion, it is then a true personal achievement.
Work provides the satisfaction of accomplishment, it allows us to fulfill ourselves. This results in an intellectual and/or material outcome, it represents the result of an effort that allows us to fulfill ourselves. In this, work is a form of enjoyment, of victory... This is certainly not leisure in the strict sense of amusement, but it represents a much stronger feeling, both of pride, esteem, satisfaction and even happiness to see oneself thus accomplished in one's activity.
Leisure, a necessity for us...
Leisure is also a necessity for us. It allows us to avoid boredom, to avoid falling into routine and the feeling of existential emptiness.
Work and leisure would therefore not be opposites but identical. They come from the same human inability to do nothing, to live fully by accomplishing things useful or useless but which certainly fill our lives...
Work allows us to access freedom, to stimulate our intellectual capacities and our imagination... it is therefore a true personal pleasure because it allows us to surpass ourselves every day, to occupy our minds... By deduction, it is also a source of daily leisure...
The Team ReKrute.com
Work is a vital necessity in the sense that it is a matter of survival, to meet one's physical (food) and material needs. Often, work is also presented as a duty, to oneself and to others, and it avoids vice and boredom in addition to need.
Unlike work, leisure has no purpose other than itself; it is synonymous with distraction, amusement, and leads to nothing more than instant pleasure.
Can't work be synonymous with leisure?
Indeed, work can and should be (as much as possible) a source of pleasure. When one has truly chosen their job, one works for pleasure, for passion, it is then a true personal achievement.
Work provides the satisfaction of accomplishment, it allows us to fulfill ourselves. This results in an intellectual and/or material outcome, it represents the result of an effort that allows us to fulfill ourselves. In this, work is a form of enjoyment, of victory... This is certainly not leisure in the strict sense of amusement, but it represents a much stronger feeling, both of pride, esteem, satisfaction and even happiness to see oneself thus accomplished in one's activity.
Leisure, a necessity for us...
Leisure is also a necessity for us. It allows us to avoid boredom, to avoid falling into routine and the feeling of existential emptiness.
Work and leisure would therefore not be opposites but identical. They come from the same human inability to do nothing, to live fully by accomplishing things useful or useless but which certainly fill our lives...
Work allows us to access freedom, to stimulate our intellectual capacities and our imagination... it is therefore a true personal pleasure because it allows us to surpass ourselves every day, to occupy our minds... By deduction, it is also a source of daily leisure...
The Team ReKrute.com
