Living To Work or Working To Live?

Sometimes I get to see life in different ways. There come moments when I will feel so happy, and there comes another moment when I am extremely down. Then I wonder how life just happened to be so multidimensional that we can’t tell what the next second will appear to look like.

I was on TikTok a few days ago, and I got the trending news of a young guy who was a comedian. He has been doing his best to create a career path for himself. It has not been an easy one, as we all know how choked every industry is at the moment. To become successful, you have to go the extra mile.

At the peak of his recognition, when people began to know him for what he does, the news about his death went viral. I was just wondering and asking myself why? Why now? Why not just allow him to reap the fruit of his labor?

And then the question popped into my mind again. What are we living for?”

What's the essence of our struggles when we know we are still going to end up leaving everything? And yet, how do we want to keep surviving if we choose to leave everything that could make us live on?

“The confusion, are we working to live? Or are we just living to work?”

To live, we have to work, and to work, we have to live. I feel both go hand in hand. Life and work, and then work and live. You can't say you want to live alone without working, just the same way you can’t work and not live.

Only if we could try as much to create a balance between our personal life and our work life, too. They are two different things, but we just have to make sure to create a balance between them.

A lot of case studies show people work and overwork, but in the end, they don't have anything to tell about those they’ve spent working all through. I guess those are the baths that “live to work?”

As for working to live, there is always the confidence that comes from knowing that you are involved in whatever job you are in, just to achieve sustainability.

Can we really live without working?

That's just another puzzle we have to mysteriously solve. Living without work seems impossible, and also possible to some extent. We have seen a lot of people just making a living out of nowhere.

They are just having life come at ease for them without stress. But in the real sense, I would say they are indirectly working, but instead of them being on the street or marketplace. 🥺

We have passive and active income, investment, and shares; some of those people are into any of these schemes, and they get paid from different sources. Then they are just working indirectly. They have their money and investment to pay them back. But in the first place they might have to pass through the rough tide of living to work before they get a switch to work for a living.