It’s
easy to tune out the world and just spend a lifetime writing and reading
books. But the ideal would be to have
both – to experience life firsthand AND to interpret it with your writings AND
to get lost in different or better worlds that books provide us. Is this really possible?
Factors
are time, money, and the human capacity for creating, experiencing, and
observing.
Let’s
look at all of them:
Time: How do you schedule your most precious
commodity so that you can do what you need to do, what you want to do, and to
write, and to read?
Money: It goes hand in hand with time. You need time to make money and money allows you
to have time to read and write – and to experience life.
Human
Capacity: It requires a shift in our emotional state to observe via book and
not participate in life, and then to participate in life with risks and
rewards, and then to have the creative ability to funnel your experiences,
observations, and dreams into your writings.
We,
as humans, have been trying to figure out forever how we can balance work and play,
writing and living, learning and doing. It’s a challenge that few of us have
been able to meet.
Sometimes
it seems like a vicious cycle. We work
to gain money so that we can afford to not work and have more time to
experience, explore, read, and write – but the more we don’t work, the more
likely we’ll run out of resources, thus, requiring us to work some more.
Being
human is a multi-dimensional experience. A part of us wants to take and be given
things while another part wants to be charitable, help others, and give back to
society. We find humor and reward in
work – and yet we dream of vacations, sleep, and time to just lounge. We like to read about a better life or world,
but then we want to be the one to help create it, both with actions and our
writings. I guess we are always in some
state of want or imbalance. To be human
is to never really be satisfied.
But
to be human is to always deny the reality we feel confronted by. We look to change things, make adjustments,
and rearrange our surroundings.
Sometimes we destroy more than nurture, dismiss more than love, and lose
more than gain. But we are curious,
creative, and compassionate, so if our actions can be driven more by those
things than greed, ignorance, or selfishness, we’ll grow as a society and
individually.
Or
maybe we’ll just destroy the world. The
odds really favor destruction. War,
nuclear weapons, hate, fear, ignorance, and environmental degradation can
easily beat out peace, love, and democracy.
It only takes a few insane or hate-filled or greedy people to plunge the
world into death and despair, while it seems like it takes the masses to
preserve and save the world.
Perhaps,
that’s a dark, pessimistic take on things.
Perhaps it’s merely an accurate reflection of world history. It’s something I would rather be wrong
about. The world needs its balance of
time – a time for work, play, rest, creativity, learning, dreaming, and
observing. We need a life that allows
enough time to write and read – and to contribute to society while being
self-sufficient.
How
will you carry out enough time for what’s needed and desired, for what you
would like to do and have to do?
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