Easily, once a week, I think about what I'd do if I wasn't doing what I did. Not in theory, but in real life. Not in a 'well, if I had a chance to start over' way but in a 'from this point forward.'There are so, so many things any of us could do.
I don't do this as a way of planning for any future, further economic meltdown, but as an ongoing measurement of ... well, all those things we may or may not care about. Happiness, actual income (oooh!), value and service to anyone else.
So far, I'm sure I'd do exactly what I'm doing now (only a little different, depending on whatever circumstances we all were living in). I'd do it not because it's oh so fun to play around. A lot of work is actually required to play the way I do all day and a lot of that work is not all that easy.
But I truly, truly believe in the huge value of stories told. I truly believe in the great value of films and theater and art.
I don't believe it in any academic or philosophical kind of way. I believe it because stories - even small glimpses of the possibilities that sparkle in someone else's life - change my day, my week and so, my life.
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It always looks so easy to create-on paper that is. I'll never say it's not fun and sometimes I even do little happy dances over a single line, but a lot the time it feels like real work. It should, because it is.
I agree about the art/story thing too, but I have no idea how to comment on it.
Sir Jotsalot: I don't know. That seemed like a really good way to comment on it.
I like real work, so it all works out.
I also truly believe in the great value of films and theater and art.
And I know too that the small glimpses of your stories and images do make a difference to me. A sparkle. So thank you!
Ulrike: How nice of you to say that! What a great sensation we share; it makes you think, doesn't it, that the whole world certainly owns the potential for feeling the same thing. Wheeee!
I have chosen to work an 8-4:30 job that is not a career or very challenging. It is easy and safe and has benefits. I'm not very adventurous when it comes work. I'm terrified of being unemployed. I think being very poor and being evicted from my home and then living in government housing when I was a kid makes me very cautious that way. I do, however, try to make up for it when I am off work.
Hey, you, gorgeous! Wanna nekk in Heaven, girl? I'd love to nekk with you. And we can spend as much time as needed to fulfill you. I'll be having a BIG-ol, kick-ass, party-hardy, too, celebrating our resurrection beyond the clouds. Meet me Upstairs, k? God bless you.
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