how thoughtful of you anita

thanks
why don’t some of you add your raps here?
I’m certainly no king of rap. Just like playing with words, language.
I know when I’m getting overly depressed or anxious, the first thing that goes is my sense of humour. All those dark demons, seem so much darker, the future more hopeless, my problems more unsolvable.
It’s when I lighten up and my ego loosens its stranglehold, that I regain sanity. Then I’m ready to express the inner child through language, oh and music too.. 🙂

Interesting post anita.

workaholism is a respectable addiction as opposed to say alcoholism for instance. as in your example, people can be escaping their inner demons by staying busy. Work can massage our ego “at least I am earning money, at least I am contributing to society and not taking. I can hold my head up high!”
in other words, our ego needs to work. Of course laziness can also be driven by our ego “I need to watch TV in order to escape feeling bored”. The ego is restless.
as you said, motivation for our work is the key:
am I trying to please someone?
is this just a means to an end?
do I really need a high paying job?
am I doing this job just to get out of the house?”

The shock comes for some when retiring. They have identified completely with their job role. “I’m a teacher. That’s who I am. Take my job away and I am useless!”

joanne
glad you could join us
hope you got some sleep

next time you ruminate
I suggest thinking of words that rhyme with ruminate
then writing a satirical poem about it

I mean this is something that needs to be debated really. Society values hard work. It’s like “Unless I am working hard, I cannot feel good about myself.”
I respect hard workers of course. Its just when they have resentment towards people like me who don’t value it as highly.
I can remember hard workers a) and hardworkers b)
a) worked hard and didn’t care whether anyone noticed. Didn’t need validation. Didn’t gossip
b) worked hard but also found time to gossip. needed validation from boss and colleagues. Liked to persecute those who weren’t as competent or hard-working as them.

it started off devoted to you, then I morphed into all my loved ones Anita 🙂