Redefined

          Around the last two years or so, during what was known as The Great Resignation, (where people were quitting their jobs in mass) our world started to change once more. People wondered how to respond to this, and while I will honestly say I do not have the answers for this, I can say this one thing with certainty: things have been redefined, and we must consider how to better respond properly to this process. This isn't a "tell it like it is" kind of post, and it is certainly not a "gloom and doom" type post either. Yet, whenever I would go into a place of business to do business, and witness the lack of staff or services that was glaringly obvious, I'd often hear at least one person express how no one is willing to work anymore. 

            While there is some truth in this, it isn't ENTIRELY TRUE and has often frustrated me greatly (and still does at times).  While there are people that are not willing to work, there are still many who actually do, they have just realized however that the way they work has changed along with a redefining of work; they no longer have to kill themselves to actually get anything done. I wish I could remember the exact definition that I was told in my high school days, but I'll paraphrase it here, It is simply anything you put effort into (and this is more than the physical). When I heard that, for that moment I considered what good work really was. Fast forward a few years and I had forgotten that definition over the years, and this has affected the way I view work as a whole to this day. 

            Lately however, the more I consider our ever-changing world, especially in places where staffing is drastically reduced or services are not done properly, I wonder to myself how things might look if we were to restructure our world around this redefined concept of work. When we look at work only as a physical act to achieve some sort of income, or achieve a certain transaction (getting income and good and services for example), we are completely missing what work really is, and dare I say even the joy that is found in true work (yes, joy can be found in work). Work is not always fun (and it doesn't have to be), yet there is a joy found in an accomplishment (even constructive growth within our lives). There is even a confidence in something that is undertaken and done well (even if there is no currency or goods and services exchanged from these acts). Work however is much more than this, every time we choose to eat, hope in something good, even simply engage life (however that looks); and these are only a few of the examples of what work truly is. Work is not the only thing that is being redefined; there are a great number of other things also (such as rest for example). We look at our world and wonder why we are burned out, unhappy, and just aimlessly wandering through our days existing rather than really thriving and living as we are intended to. It's because we have wrong definitions of many things, ones that lead to wrong belief systems and unhealthy lives because of it. This is not to say there is nothing good that is happening around us, or that we can't change. It is only to say this one simple thing: things are being redefined in proper definitions and we must respond in different and healthy ways, constructive ways, in order to truly thrive in this massive shift and shifting that we as a world have been experiencing, otherwise we will never rise and live the way we were intended to.

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