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essay on work and labour

 

what we are usually doing is what we think we are doing. thinking of doing something that is undoing the non-doing. in the doing is when someone is not staying with him or herself. is alienating of her inner core into something that is consuming. the brain that changed his mind. by doing something you forget about something or anything or even nothing. what do you think you do when you do what you do?

 

working is a matter of not paying attention of one another, is being with yourself but not yourself and sometimes not being. by doing you lose yourself in the repetition and give to your brain comfortable material. labour is opposite to contemplation. labour is opposite to imagination. is wasting yourself. but in the same time assuring the survival kit of minimum existence. if you work you are safe. you are safe because your work is saving you from yourself. and because you can feed yourself and survive further on. to work more and to eat more. if you let yourself to be lost in your thoughts and contemplative state there is possible you forget to eat anyway, even if you have some food saved somewhere close to you. you forget and you lose yourself in yourself and in the universe that holds you so tight that you start to feel like you are one. when you work the work is your universe. the work that you are doing is very possible to be useless for the universe but you cannot breath without doing it even if it is pointless or just a waste of time. is that you are fragmenting your time by the actions your are doing when you are in the do. the actions that prepare you for your free time when you actually try to escape from your labour and unavoidable of yourself. because you are your labour. you are your actions. you are what you are doing. but people that are doing simple actions in their labour most of the times they are able to get happiness from simple things. they enjoy simple things. that’s why labour must be simple. only simple things that you are doing in a simple manner, even repetitive so you can lose yourself in your inner world while your body is performing like a robot. and so you became at least 2. one outside and one inside. the two bodies of minds. the two bodies of thoughts. so you can train your body and you'll clear your thoughts or you can fit your body by training your mind. in both cases you have to train. that means you have to work.

so you are two bodies one that works and one that is not. but if it is not working, what is he doing? there is no answer for this question because it is very difficult to impossible to completely free your mind. your mind is working anyway even if you are not working. you have a working mind. never ending doing something.

even when you are not working your mind is looping within the actions, thoughts and comands that it is use to. it is very easy to loop yourself forever. and perhaps the easiest way to do it is  to continue doing what you are already doing.

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