Hi,
A THOUGHT for the THOUGHTFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!We could improve the economies in most of the world if we VIEWED WORK DIFFERENTLY. THIS BLOGGER is including a link to a web site at the bottom FROM a forward. Not only are the photographs beautiful but it proves the point.
THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!! When we talk about surfing with surfers, they always tell us what fun it is! Not how much work it is. True of Skiers, Parkourists (vault or jump over "things"), skaters, gymnasts, swimmers and most of the Sports world. They are having FUN!!!!!!!! NEVER MIND HOW MUCH TIME AND EFFORT IT TAKES TO GET TO BE JUST PRETTY GOOD!
Our mind set determines what we consider WORK and what we consider FUN AND EVEN IF FUN REQUIRES WORK,IT STAYS FUN!!!!!!! FUNKY!!!!!!!!!!! Dancers, singers (particular Opera),actors, TV stars MOSTLY consider their WORK, FUN. MOST OF THOSE WHO SEE THEIR WORK AS FUN, PUT IN MUCH LONGER HOURS THAN THE NORMAL 9-5 WORKDAY. ARTISTS, WRITERS (LIKE YOURS TRULY) PUT IN LONG HOURS BUT CONSIDER IT NATURAL. There's no PAY SCALE FOR HAVING FUN AND OFTEN (AGAIN LIKE THIS WRITER) NO REMUNERATION!!!!!!
WHY??????? IT'S FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We put WORK into a category that is seemingly unpleasant and FUN into a category that is seemingly pleasant.
All the times a BOOGIE BOARD RIDER WIPES OUT or a SNOWBOARDER CLOTHESLINES DURING AND AFTER the learning stage becomes designated as FUN. WOW, WHAT FUN TODAY!!!!!!!! WHAT A GREAT DAY, ONLY ALMOST DROWNED FOUR TIMES WHEN WIPING OUT!!!!!!!! ONLY CLOTHESLINED TWICE AND LOST ALL my CLOTHES IN THE SNOW AND WAS IT COLD!!!!!!!!!!What fun!!!
GET THE PICTURE??????????? We WORK very hard at having FUN but we don't call it WORK.
We resent WORKING HARD WHEN WE DON'T SEE IT AS FUN!!!!!!!!!! And no sacrifice is too great for FUN; even an avalanche when skiing down steep mountains; that is, if you escape being killed. Work (that hard to take word), HOWEVER, SHOULD NEVER REQUIRE THE KINDS OF SACRIFICES THAT FUN requires.
We know that ballplayers have to practice MUCHO hours to be good enough to play in the big leagues (if they make it at after all that WORK) THEN THEY HAVE TO CONTINUE TO PRACTICE (WORK) to maintain their position on the team they are PLAYING FOR!!!!!!! We even use a fun word--PLAY--TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY DO!!!!!
WHAT'S in a WORD? Obviously a great deal. WORKING is something that people want to cast aside in order to PLAY. But I can't think of a single act of playing OR having fun that doesn't require tremendous effort in order to enjoy it!!!!! WHEN PLAY CHANGES AND MORE WORK IS INVOLVED--DO WE COMPLAIN????????? NOT AS MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
So do you think that we should rename what we do for a living?????? Suppose the engineer said.I'm going out TO PLAY in the field WHILE doing some engineering and really have some fun! Or if the bookkeeper said well I'm off to the books to add up all those little numbers, and have a ball while I'm doing it! Or the store clerk said, I'm going in to do some selling today and I'm really looking forward to the FUN I'll have when I make those big sales. Maybe the garbage collector might get up in the morning and say I'm going out to clean up the world around me, what FUN to help the environment! The computer geek might say working at the computer is ever changing and it makes my job REAL FUN.
The perception of what we're doing DETERMINES whether it is FUN OR WORK. IF WE SEE IT AS FUN, IT'S FUN. THERE ARE MANY SUCH ANALOGIES BUT NO SENSE IN THIS FUN BECOMING WORK!!!!!!
Having fun changes with each generation and the affluence of the participants. Perception is a very powerful mental tool THAT you can see in the present dialogue from the candidates and from the president. They offer you a vocabulary that creates the kind of perception they want you to enjoy. It's a VERY SUCCESSFUL TECHNIQUE and candidates with just CERTAIN words as their WEAPONS can change your conception of them.
Now what if WE CHANGE some words, OR MAKE a new word for WORK???? After all, if it's only perception that makes some of us hate work, can we find a word to substitute??? You know, COIN A PHRASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!we've TRIED TO DO THAT WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS: PROFESSION, OCCUPATION, CRAFT, CALLING etc. but none really add up to a frolic, a gambol, or a romp for PLAY!!!!!!!! we EVEN HAVE A EUPHEMISM FOR SEX--A ROLL IN THE HAY!!!!!! So why do we insist on making our MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD a poor substitute for PLAY???????
Maybe this will help: for the bookkeeper perhaps we can JIGGLE the numbers. Jiggling sounds like fun. Perhaps the engineer can PLAY at up scaling a building or romp up the landscape and create a slope. The teacher could FROLIC WITH her classroom to an on-site cattle farm to see how cows are milked. Sounds like FUN. The salesman COULD USE HIS THEATRICAL TECHNIQUES TO GAMBOL WITH HIS CONSUMERS. Sounds good. And THE TRASH MAN could CELEBRATE BEING AN ACTIVE environmental specialist FOR A GREENER WORLD. Conceivable???? Reevaluating the words we use, REPLACING the connotations WE PLACE ON THEM, WILL CHANGE THE WAY THE WORD WORK AFFECTS US AND OTHERS. INDULGE IN A LITTLE WHIMSY. (NOW there's a great word!) Politicians USE WORDS THAT GET YOU TO SEE THINGS THEIR WAY SO THAT THEY CAN ACHIEVE the FUN POWER TO YANK YOUR CHAIN AND AT YOUR EXPENSE.
It occurs to this blogger that if we changed many of the connotations that we place on words, we might ELECT better candidates to office, who would understand what the VOTERS ARE really asking them to do. In other words--THE GAME PLAN. The candidate's real FUN is political POWER and the game play is for the prize -ELECTION when the REAL FUN STARTS. WINNING election MAKES THE CANDIDATE ADMIRED BY VOTERS for playing the game really WELL which NOT ONLY satisfies constituents but also makes non constituents take another look. HEY!!!!!! It's just like PLAYING ANY GAME!!!!!FUN. Politicians recognize A GOOD GAME WHEN THEY SEE ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! and they want to play. You never hear politicians say they're WORKING politics. 'Course you don't hear them say they're PLAYING politics except in relation to their oponents doing so. A little thought and we see that they love the game and whatever they have to DO TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOAL isn't seen as WORK!!!!!
Don't underestimate the power of words!!!!!!!!!!!!! If they can turn WORK into PLAY and PLAY into WORK, there's no telling what they can do. Can they convince you????????????? You betcha they can! For INSTANCE if you've been asking how America elected a socialist government and looking for someplace or someone to blame, then search no more. WORDS!!!!! In this case ONE word that resonated with the young. CHANGE! What young person doesn't want to produce a world unlike their parents world???? We've all been there, we've all talked about what CHANGE means but have we really understood the power in the word CHANGE? The youth went in good faith to the polls and voted based on words!!!
There are many people out there who have no idea what the word socialism means. They have no idea that it's another word for communism. They have no idea THAT the word progressive includes both those words. These words do not have the connotation of FAILURE that Communism carried. Although the "communist, socialist, progressive" systems are still failing around the world. The Communists discovered the power of words and they changed their name to Socialists and then Progressives. It sounded better, they could slough off the mantle of failure and folks found it less dangerous!!!!!!!!!! That's why the monied communists CHOSE Barack Obama for their spokesperson. He looks like he knows how to play a game people love. (Singing or basketball???) And he knows how to choose and play with words so that the words seem to mean exactly what you want to hear and what the youth in our nation want to hear.
When choosing candidates, in the Congress and the presidency, there is a need to go beyond their chosen words and look realistically at their actions and contributions since they want the power to PLAY the POLITICAL GAME. WOULDN'T POLITICS BE MORE EXCITING IF VOTERS REALIZED THEY WER WATCHING A GAME!!!!!!!!!! FUN FOR POLITICIANS AND FUN FOR THE TEAMS WHO REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS. NAME YOUR TEAM??????? Perhaps it's time for America to TAKE the word WORK and turn it into PLAY IN ALL ENDEAVORS so that we not only enjoy our spare time, but we enjoy all of the time that we spend doing whatever we do.
IT'S PERCEPTION, folks. It is the connotation PLACED on the WORDS Used BY US AND OTHERS!!! Don't be fooled, don't be made a fool of, and don't forget POLITICIANS ARE SALESMEN!!!!!!!! A given politician IS selling you an IDEA for a given amount OF TAXES!!!!!!!!!! What words do you think that A POLITICAL salesman would use and how would you REACT to that selling technique?????????? Would you take it on faith or would you look further into the matter and compare. YOU COMPARE WORK, PLAY, CARS, HOUSES, AND APPLIANCES IN DETAIL!!!! WHY NOT THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE POLITICAL GAME.
Writers are VERY cognizant of what WORDS can do because that's the game they play. AND YOU PROBABLY REALIZE THAT WRITING IS FUN NOT WORK!!!!!!!!!!
Henry Miller once said "CHAOS is the score upon which reality is WRITTEN". To avoid chaos IN THE COMING YEARS, choose to find the REALITY in the rhetoric being offered by OUR POLITICAL SALESMEN as they PLAY the game of POLITICS.
Cheers, Connie
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