24.5.08

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

1.5.08

MAY 1 - LABOUR DAY

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.

Mark Twain

Dedicado a todos los quejones, malhumorados, visiblemente amargados que parecen arrastrar sus cuerpos y esclavizar sus mentes en proyectos ajenos. Súbditos de su propia ignorancia. Considero ignorantes a quienes no supieron ni saben aun encontrar el talento que se les ha otorgado para tal o cual empresa y malgastan sus preciados días en tareas lejanas a su voluntad. De esta manera envejecen, apartados de su propia luz.
Oscuros.
Sombríos.
Enajenados.
Y lo peor es que jamás se detienen a preguntarse donde yace su verdadero placer.
Y así se les va la vida.

Bienaventurados aquellos que cada día enfrentan sus desafíos laborales con el espíritu del juego y la diversión. Quienes recorren el camino del trabajo con el alma iluminada, dando luz a su alrededor, inspiran, motivan y despiertan en el otro el mismo afán de ver en el trabajo una de las razones más enaltecidas del ser.

Ladyvina, May 1, 2008.