Hmm... complex.empiricAugust 20 2003, 21:10:18 UTC
You asked for comments, so I'm commenting even though I'm not sure this will be of any use whatever...
Your comments sound like they are coming from a perspective much like the "Protestant work ethic". The concepts being that we're sinners ejected from paradise, to toil for our daily bread by God's command.
Maybe the central thing you're looking at is summed up in the semi-ironic phrase of "The reward for good work is more work." This can lead to the notion that you're on an endless treadmill of more dreary work. Work in this context is an "obligation".
It might help to look at your work more like it's a painting you did. To the wider viewer you can say, "Like it or hate it, as you wish. It's my painting, and I did it for myself." This puts it back in a context under your control, rather than driven by the reactions of outside forces. The standards of "good" versus "bad" work are pretty arbitrary, at the end of the day. Have fun with it.
Re: Hmm... complex.robwillAugust 21 2003, 12:32:52 UTC
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. This is something I am working through. I know my post sounds a little stark. I was being simplistic in order to illustrate what I am beginning to embrace as a truth
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Your comments sound like they are coming from a perspective much like the "Protestant work ethic".
The concepts being that we're sinners ejected from paradise, to toil for our daily bread by God's command.
Maybe the central thing you're looking at is summed up in the semi-ironic phrase of "The reward for good work is more work." This can lead to the notion that you're on an endless treadmill of more dreary work. Work in this context is an "obligation".
It might help to look at your work more like it's a painting you did. To the wider viewer you can say, "Like it or hate it, as you wish. It's my painting, and I did it for myself." This puts it back in a context under your control, rather than driven by the reactions of outside forces. The standards of "good" versus "bad" work are pretty arbitrary, at the end of the day. Have fun with it.
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