Desperate Times
I’m 6 days behind, this is being written on the the 30th, that is, so I am going to break all of the rules to get 6 blogs typed up today and, of course, the 1st rule and the worst one to break is the rule against writing about writing, about getting too involved in the process, but that’s where I am in my head, I think of Jack Nicholson typing again and again and again “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” and it’s a symbol for writer’s block but of course, it could be a writer’s technique, like this:
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All work and no perks makes Jack angry
All work and no play makes Jack
All work is a horrible way to spend one’s life, back when I was a salaried office slave, or worse, manual laborer, the thing that depressed me most was that all of that time spent at that job was time out of my life, my time, my allotted 80 with luck or even less, and you don’t get it back, that’s time you spent fulfilling somebody else’s agenda
All work and no play will, all things considered, lead to a more successful life than all play and no work
All of the work that has gone into the construction of the civilization in which we live, the infrastructure and the institutions, the culture, all of it, and the effort that goes into it’s daily maintenance is a hell of a lot of work. The everyday miracle of the world we live in, planes that fly over oceans, live television, mobile phones, great food served to you by friendly waiters, is all based on human boredom and misery, your waitresses feet hurt, someone had to work in a factory to make that airplane. Play, on the other hand, has very little downside.
Jack, a dull boy, should play more and work less. Jack, the layabout, should probably play a bit less and work more.
Work was defined by Mark Twain as “anything you don’t want to do.” I can live with that. Writing, at least, is supposed to be more play than work.
But I feel that, as with a highly competitive sport, if you’re not really working to win, then you aren’t playing the game correctly. And as much as I am a supporter of more play time, for the entire human race, I still want to win the game.
O.K., there’s one blog post in 10 minutes. On to the next.
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