Working to live, living to, work, it's both! Translated…
The mail carrier came ringing, I'd gone downstairs to retrieve my package, saw him there, waiting patiently for the elderly woman to find her reading glasses, to see the papers clearly, then, sign for her, package. "Thanks, you're so very, patient!", I'd thanked the mail carrier when I'd signed for my package. "No big deal! Harder if I didn't work!", he was about thirty, and responded back, spirited.
His words reminded me of the owner of the salon. When I went into get a trim, heard her telling about how the son of a customer coming back from his earning his doctorate, couldn't find work, and the client gave her son $30,000N.T. a month as his allowances. She'd consoled the woman to not keep on giving her son the money, otherwise, he will, NEVER find a job.
live to work...like this...photo from online
"Nowadays, the monthly paychecks are $20,000N.T. to $30,000N.T.s, and her son doesn't need to work, and got that amount, after awhile, I'm sure, he wouldn't be, motivated to find work.", I'd told.
"At most, I would only provide my offspring to until they'd graduated out of university, my son is abroad, working on his graduate degree, he'd filed for the scholarship, to pay for his own living and tuition, my daughter isn't good in school, she's planning on testing into the police academy," the owner of the salon told.
"A cop! Then, would she not need the self-defense lessons like tae-kwon do and what not, she might easily get injured in her training, and you're willing to put her at risk of being, injured?", I'd asked.
"Injured, go to the hospital to get treated! No big deal, besides, my husband retired from a police officer, the two of them can, fight each other."
"As parents, we must, be willing to see our children go through their, hard times of life," I agreed.
She'd told me another story of another, customer, "he too, provided all the living expenses for his son after his son lost his job. The son stayed at home, gone online to make the purchases, played the games. At age fifty, his hair was, all white, and, had teeth problems, and needed the new teeth implanted in. An awful temper, gotten into altercation with his neighbors often, he'd beaten his own grandson, and, as the school and teachers notified social services, the cops came, that was when the domestic violence ended. That client was originally trying to provide for his own young, worried that he may be taken working out, and, he'd not thought of how his son staying at home for long, became ill physically and psychologically, that it'd, affected his own young, grandson too."
or work to live...getting chased down by that, clock...photo from online
We all believe, that we need to see the bigger picture as parents, "I can retire now, but, I loved working, not for the sake of, money, or the sense of achievement, I love helping my customers look pretty.", the female barber said.
Communicating in work, working together, to solve the problems, thanking others for assisting us, all of these, will affect our overall health. "You would have it even harder, if you don't work", certainly has some truth in it.
So, this is on why we work, not because we have to, not because we need the money that work gives to us, but for that, sense of, personal achievement, sense of, satisfaction from completing that task that's assigned to us, and the motivations of work or anything else should always come from within not without, because, externally, things are, unstable, and things can change in a split second, so if your motivation is the external factors (i.e. good pay, status, yada, yada, yada), once those things get taken out of the "equation", you would have, nothing to keep you, going anymore.
or, for the fulfillment you get from working...photo from online
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