It's a new day- it's a new dawn!

Hello all- happy Friday!

Fridays are good right? They are the nice closer to a week and the beginning of the weekend. Often people prefer the weekend because they get to play and don't have to work. Or it is the closure of the school week. and again, people get to play! I love to play because I feel so free! It seems unfortunate that so many people live to work and don't work to live. I have recently discovered secret option b) work to live. By that I mean work is a means of making money, challenging oneself, and attempt to make a difference, pay it forward or what-have-you. Work does not define an individual! Life does not equal work.

It's interesting, to me, that when you meet someone you politely say, oh yes how nice to meet you (insert name!) How's your day going! What do you do? It's like the first or second question you are asked or ask another. And why is that? It could very possibly be because you don't know this person and want to get to know them. You have nothing else to say. You say it because that is a place to start conversation. Whatever the reasons are this job has a lot of weight in society and defining who we are. If I work as an accountant- there is a stigma. If I work as a cashier- there is a stigma. If I work as a doctor- there is a stigma! What is that all about?! Is it because the job defines a wage which defines a status? Is it because we are able to categorize who this person is in our mind and better understand them? Is it because we usually find strength in numbers and want to surround ourselves with similar people on a similar wavelength? I pose this question because I do not know the answer.

We spend hours and weeks and months at a job that we may or may not like, that defines us and why? There are clearly responsibilities we have and we must follow through on those. I understand that but I do not understand why we live to work. I may be wrong and PLEASE correct me if I am! But work is everywhere. If it isn't a job, or school is working on the house or in the garden or in a relationship. Everything bloody well takes work and a lot of it! What happened to "follow your heart" "follow your dreams" "smell the roses"??? No one has time to even know what their heart wants, what their dreams are or to smell the roses. Everything is instantaneous and bigger-better-more-faster-now-for less. I do not have a solution of am even going to pretend I have an idea of where to go. All I think is that we are caught in this BIG MESS! Now- I believe that what I see outside of me is what is going on inside of me. So I suppose that means I am living in a big mess I created! How do I get out?

It's the dawn of a new day- that's how!