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>You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life. Man, I don't even know how to respond to this. "Just enjoy life"? Wo

by blhack 10y ago

>You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life. Man, I don't even know how to respond to this. "Just enjoy life"? Working is how I enjoy life. My freetime is spent building art projects, or teaching workshops, or working on sidecode stuff, or just...working. Building stuff, putting stuff together, improving stuff. If I look back on the vacations I've taken where I do "nothing", I come back extremely unhappy and antsy. When I look back at vacations where I did something useful, for instance: organizing all the tools in my late-grandfathers old workshop, it makes me feel happy and fullfilled. So maybe to each their own. People who want to "just enjoy life" should do so. People who want to work should do so too.

Waterluvian 10y ago
To each their own. I always try to step away from software engineering because I feel I'm supposed to take a break. But am hour into a video game and I don't feel challenged or creative. So I go right back to what I love. I suspect I'm the kind of person who will never truly retire.
nostromo 10y ago
If you enjoy doing those things, then do them. I'm saying don't do them out of a fear of your impending death. Do them because you love to do them.
- blhack 10y ago
  >I'm saying don't do them out of a fear of your impending death. Do them because you love to do them. What does this even mean? The scarcity of life, and therefore the imperative to do things now instead of later is because of death. I absolutely do things because of the fear of impending death. I am going to die someday, and when I die, I won't have any more opportunities to build things with my niece, or work on an art project with my girlfriend. A day I spent sitting around instead of spending time with somebody I love is a day that is, in my opinion, wasted, and I think that it is ridiculous of you to imply that there is something wrong with this.
  - billforsternz 10y ago
    I think nostromo is advocating a healthy, live and let live, different people are motivated by different things mindset. I think that you are somehow imagining this to be an attack on you, when he is actually supporting your right to live the way you want to.

by blhack 10y ago

Waterluvian 10y ago

To each their own. I always try to step away from software engineering because I feel I'm supposed to take a break. But am hour into a video game and I don't feel challenged or creative. So I go right back to what I love. I suspect I'm the kind of person who will never truly retire.

nostromo 10y ago

If you enjoy doing those things, then do them. I'm saying don't do them out of a fear of your impending death. Do them because you love to do them.

blhack 10y ago
>I'm saying don't do them out of a fear of your impending death. Do them because you love to do them. What does this even mean? The scarcity of life, and therefore the imperative to do things now instead of later is because of death. I absolutely do things because of the fear of impending death. I am going to die someday, and when I die, I won't have any more opportunities to build things with my niece, or work on an art project with my girlfriend. A day I spent sitting around instead of spending time with somebody I love is a day that is, in my opinion, wasted, and I think that it is ridiculous of you to imply that there is something wrong with this.
- billforsternz 10y ago
  I think nostromo is advocating a healthy, live and let live, different people are motivated by different things mindset. I think that you are somehow imagining this to be an attack on you, when he is actually supporting your right to live the way you want to.