Monday, July 30, 2007

Life = Work? It Cant Be!

While on the topic of Henry David Thoreau's book "Walden", I came across an interesting view of life and work:

Rather than purposefully living, the vast majority of people's lives are little more than a series of reactions to events and forces outside themselves. That's not truly living. That's just survival. Yet most people willingly engage in simple survival today in the belief that they will get their chance at actual living tomorrow. If they can earn enough money now surely they will be able to retire one day and enjoy life. Those are long odds, however. Assuming you live long enough to try it, will you know how to enjoy life? Or be in good health?

Thoreau says: "This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once. What!" exclaim a million Irishmen starting up from all the shanties in the land, "is not this railroad which we have built a good thing?" Yes, I answer, comparatively good, that is, you might have done worse; but I wish, as you are brothers of mine, that you could have spent your time better than digging in this dirt."

In conclusion, we need to live our lives rather than find out too late that is has, in fact, lived us.

From: http://thoreau.eserver.org/oneless.html

31 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ashish- Another great quote from Walden, which very few people understand, is:

And when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him.

Are you living life, or has the life lived you? Do you have your possessions, or have your possessions got you?

volcanik said...

Great lines from a great book! Thanks William

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