Reflections

Every year on New Years Eve/Day, I take some time to reflect and meditate on the past year. This process usually leads me to reflecting on my entire life that has past. On the whole it has been a great lifetime. I like where I am today with my arts. I have grown a lot in the arts and I am enjoying my journey as I get deeper into the emotional side of creating. I love the people that surround me. This year the holidays were full of delight, joy, fun, sharing and love. I enjoyed the time I spent with my family immensely. We cried, we laughed and we shared our love for one another. Oh and did we eat! My friends, ahhh! What can I say, they are the best! They made the holidays extra special. I have some great memories that I will cherish for a lifetime. I am lucky to have quite a number of friends that I am close to and can count on them in times of need. What I love most about my friends is that they accept me as I am. Accepting me as I am is very important because I don’t want to hide. Hiding oneself takes a lot of energy. Being around people who I can trust with my thoughts and feelings is a very freeing and positive experience. So you may be wondering what is the downside of my life. Well, it’s working. Before I go any further about working, I just want to be clear that this is my opinion about my experience of work. I will never understand why work was invented. It has such a negative effect on the human soul (thus the drawing). When I come home from work I feel like the girl in the drawing. I know I am human but when I look in the mirror, I see a robot. And when I look around I see other people who are robots too, they just don’t know it. All one does all day at work is reproduce the same widget day in and day out. How boring is this! Work is set up so that one feels and acts like a robot. And since you are seen as a machine to the people who sign your paycheck, they think they own you. So they have the right to give you more work and not give out raises. What makes me laugh is when I am told to be creative on the job. Now that is funny. Anyone who creates knows that creating is a process. Sometimes what you want to create isn’t exactly what you actually create. There are plenty of mistakes made during the creating process. Creating requires a lot of time to explore what is possible. In work you are not given time to create or explore possibilities, you must reproduce as many widgets as possible within an allotted amount of time usually 8 hrs. Now that I think about, society’s pressure to make us work seems more like a form of oppression to me. I can hear people screaming now. But wait, just think about this. If you work for someone, you are required to be at your desk 8 to 10 hrs a day 5 day a week. If you fail to show up you must call with a good excuse. If you disagree with your supervisor you can be fired. As long as I need a paycheck, I have to do as I am told and don’t make many waves. If I make a few waves it will look good to my boss, but I have to be careful not to cross the line. Now that I’m thinking about work, I think I know why it was invented. Think about it, what would this world be like if we could tell the people we work for to take a hike when they require us to work harder for less pay. I’m sure there are many people who would have a hard time with this idea especially people with power. AHH! there it is WORK WAS INVENTED TO DOMINATE AND CONTROL THE MASSES! Now that I’ve express my views about work, what am I to do? I can’t get out of this society until I die and I’m not planning on dying anytime soon. So what am I to do? What can I bring into my life that can have a positive impact and can offset the negativities of working? This is where my reflections are leading me. This is something I will sleep on and blog about in the days to come.



