Work has never made me happy...playing "assassins" with my children, and breaking my own rule of "don't shoot those things in the house" (meaning Nerf guns of course) has brought more smiles and laughter to me than any argument over hours or pay ever could! Sure, you need to support your family, but, what is the use of working to support them, if you distance yourself for the love of money and lose them all together! Go to work, make your LIVING, and enjoy the company of the ones you love, because life is short, and it's even shorter when you never bothered to see that it was there to begin with!
A little pessimism added to this.. I think that video is a bit late in some respects. We are already envisioning the future as environmental devastation happens under our watch daily; it already is a norm. Spending time with your family or communication has been strained by the constant cycle of working. There's a billboard in Kansas City that says, "It's hard to make a living when all you are doing is working." How true..
I'm always reminded of what the scholar, Daniel Coffeen said:
"And this — these day to day exchanges for coffee, groceries, driving — is the environment. Literally. I don’t want to give my money to save the Amazon rain forest. I want to not have to work 70 hours a week just to break even. And if everyone were just to slow down, well then, perhaps we’d stop raping the trees and the ground. Perhaps then we would have less need for the oil we are so concerned about. But as is, the very terms of environmentalism are constitutive of the precise problem said movement nominally serves. To focus on oil is to focus on the wrong thing; it is to focus on what the oil companies focus on, what the car companies focus on, what Amazon and UPS and Boeing focus on. The environmental drive to conserve and preserve resources is misguided. It is to be duped by the CEOs and Wall Street. The focus should not be oil or plants or dolphins but the day to day pleasure of human beings. And then everything else will fall into place."
I think that pretty much hits the nail on the head.
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 8:57AM
Reader Comments (12)
awesome!
I could not love that more.
Viva the next generation!!
xoxo
Work has never made me happy...playing "assassins" with my children, and breaking my own rule of "don't shoot those things in the house" (meaning Nerf guns of course) has brought more smiles and laughter to me than any argument over hours or pay ever could! Sure, you need to support your family, but, what is the use of working to support them, if you distance yourself for the love of money and lose them all together! Go to work, make your LIVING, and enjoy the company of the ones you love, because life is short, and it's even shorter when you never bothered to see that it was there to begin with!
Great video. Great message.
Nice. Very Nice.
Whoa, that was great!
dang right Jinxi! agreed!
Wow, that was incredible :)! Thanks Jinxi!
POWERFUL Message!!! Thank You! :)
great stuff.
that was beyond cool....love it
hey my teacher showd my class this vid, at the end all of us thought it was so cool!!
A little pessimism added to this.. I think that video is a bit late in some respects. We are already envisioning the future as environmental devastation happens under our watch daily; it already is a norm. Spending time with your family or communication has been strained by the constant cycle of working. There's a billboard in Kansas City that says, "It's hard to make a living when all you are doing is working." How true..
I'm always reminded of what the scholar, Daniel Coffeen said:
"And this — these day to day exchanges for coffee, groceries, driving — is the environment. Literally. I don’t want to give my money to save the Amazon rain forest. I want to not have to work 70 hours a week just to break even. And if everyone were just to slow down, well then, perhaps we’d stop raping the trees and the ground. Perhaps then we would have less need for the oil we are so concerned about. But as is, the very terms of environmentalism are constitutive of the precise problem said movement nominally serves. To focus on oil is to focus on the wrong thing; it is to focus on what the oil companies focus on, what the car companies focus on, what Amazon and UPS and Boeing focus on. The environmental drive to conserve and preserve resources is misguided. It is to be duped by the CEOs and Wall Street. The focus should not be oil or plants or dolphins but the day to day pleasure of human beings. And then everything else will fall into place."
I think that pretty much hits the nail on the head.