Dangers of having NOTHING to do anymore
"For most of our lives, we\u2019re hard at work: we\u2019re up till midnight in the library studying for a degree, we\u2019re learning a trade, building a business, writing a book. We have hardly a moment to ourselves. We don\u2019t even ask whether we are fulfilled, it\u2019s simply obvious that this is the bit that has to hurt. We fall asleep counting the weeks until the end...
\nThe mind works in deceptive ways. In order to generate the momentum required to induce us to finish any task, this mind pretends that once the work is done, it will finally be content, it will accept reality as it is. It will cease its restless, persecutory questions, it won\u2019t throw up random unease or guilty suppositions. It will be on our side...
\nOnce hard work ends, there is nothing to stop our melancholy minds from leading us to the edge of an abyss we had been able to resist so long as our heads were down. We start to feel that no achievement will ever in fact be enough, that nothing we do can last or make a difference, that little is as good as it should be...
\nWe should be kinder on ourselves. Rather than putting ourselves through the infinitely demanding process of idling, we should be self-compassionate enough to keep setting ourselves one slightly irrelevant but well camouflaged challenge after another...
\nOur work exists to protect us from a brutal sense of despair and angst. We should make sure we never stop having tasks to do \u2013 and never make that most reckless of all moves, \u2018retire\u2019 or embark on that next most reckless step, taking a long holiday."
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