Schopenhauer's Cosmic Miserablists

General Category => Why Work? => Topic started by: ducktape on January 26, 2016, 01:52:20 pm

Title: Why work you ask
Post by: ducktape on January 26, 2016, 01:52:20 pm

Whenever I am lost in my thoughts, and stumble upon the above question I seem to answer myself in the following way.

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"Because it's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you."

Title: Re: Why work you ask
Post by: Doctor Huckleberry Diesel on January 29, 2016, 09:27:12 pm

Does "what you do" only have significance when associated with employment?

When HP Lovecraft was jobless all those years, his writing was his work, right?