If you could choose anything to do, what would you choose? It's very likely that you give a lot of attention to work. What is your work? And I don't mean what is your job title, but what is it that you give so much attention, energy, priority to.
Is it the securing of means for survival and what you call development of your life conditions? Is it that? Mostly through reward of money, as well as skills accumulation that can help you generate more by doing less, something like that. Is that your work? Is that the nature of the work that you do?
And if you could choose in ideal world any work, what would you choose?
There is a work that the nature is demonstrating to us. The work of life, the work of living. And from that, when you think of the twist in the expression "making a living," you start to see that very likely there is a distortion in the essence of work.
The tree does not announce that its work is to grow and meet the sun and expand and make fruits. It just meets the nature of itself. Similarly, your work could be to meet the nature of yourself.
And from that, totally unplanned, totally unrelated to any reward, totally unguided by any set of goals, intentions, expectations, you manifest that which you are.
In an ideal world, would you choose that work? The work of meeting the nature of yourself? I doubt it, because that ideal world is exactly the world you live in.
And that choice that you either ignore or refuse to make is not a conscious choice. It's not something you announce every morning. It's just covered by endless other choices that you make that are driven by conditioning and fear.
In my view, you may want to make a break in that sequence of fake justification and question what is your true work in this short, yet timeless life that you live.
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