How Do You Define ‘Work’?
Changing your perception can transform work into play.
Work in my house doesn’t seem to mean the same as for everyone else. I’m not sure where it started but I think both my partner and I have always had a different take on it. Work is the thing you do because you are driven to. It keeps you up at night and screaming in your head in frustration when regular life pulls you away from it. Your job is what you do for money, it’s nothing more than a means to an end. If you’re really lucky, you combine the two. Can you tell we’re a house of creatives?
The phrase ‘I just need to work’, is a broken record around here, and somehow there just never seems to be enough time for any of us to feel truly satisfied. I wonder though if that’s about having enough time or having an unending amount of ideas that excite you. Our frustration levels are unsurprising really as both he and I could happily sit working indefinitely, only stirring for food and water, which isn’t really something you can do with four home-educated children.
We are taught early on to pick the thing we’re going to be when we grow up, that each of us has one unique calling, one skill that we’re going to excel at, but there couldn’t be a more limiting idea. I’m a writer. I’m sure it’s part of my DNA because whether I’m physically doing it, I can feel it there…
