There’s not one of us who, at least sometimes, doesn’t find ourselves slodging through our daily cubicle continuums, leading lives of quiet desperation, oppressed by the seeming sameness of everything and everybody. Where the world just appears to us in monochromatic grey. Where everything tastes, feels and even smells metallic and stale. And, beyond all of the personal feelings of mega-blah, you also know that your work will at best be on automatic pilot.
Yet for some, at least those of us who are blessed with an active fantasy life, there’s always an escape- a slip through the portals of the mind, and there you are…the time and place totally up to you. And so, like with swearing as a tensional outlet, the daydreams that give you a refreshing break are (but not quite) almost as good as R&R. They’re stimulating, refreshing and will help salvage your mind. It might even help your creative juices to begin flowing once again.
Aloha, dear readers, upon my return from Hawaii. Though I’m back in my old cubicle continuum world, I’ll always have that beautiful, sun-kissed isle to fall back on. When the boredom sets in, or the going gets rough, I know where I’m going, at least in my head…
While it’s true that living and working somewhere else is very different than being on vacation, there’s still, I think, a helluva lot to be said for environment. It makes one wonder, just how happy/unhappy one can be living in a tropical paradise. Sunshine and warmth moderated by gentle trade winds, the stunningly blue Pacific, majestic mountains, lush flowers and a generally friendly population that seems to really live by their motto of ‘hang loose’. I don’t mean just towards tourists, but more importantly, to each other. There’s a gentility and a casual sense of courtesy in the air, a feeling that I just haven’t seen through much of the world.
Which brings me to a question that I’d love for you to answer: Would you rather have the worst job in the best place or the best job in the worst place? Think carefully before responding in the comments section below.
The Hawaiians have a word for work: ho’ohana. This means to work (and play) with passion, with enthusiasm, irrespective of what your job is. Talk about a great work ethic! Sure, work can be totally the pits, and in the final analysis, human nature is, well, just that. But how bad can things be, when you can swim year ’round, and live a more or less hang loose life?
Mahalo and Aloha.
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