Back from Vacation

One of the big lies told to writers is that you have to write every day.  I have written the vast majority of days of my life, but it doesn’t mean spit if I take a few days off.  Sometimes you need time off to fill the well.

Which is not to say I did no writing on vacation.  I always do.  My point here is that I live in a society devoted to selling the lie of overwork.  Perhaps this is appropriate as it seems more young people want to work too little than too much.  But experience has a way of changing that, so I don’t endorse the selling.  Age cures a lot of things without my input.

American society sells that you have to work too much until you’re rich.  Even if you don’t particularly want to be rich.  I don’t think that’s special.  Selling is what American society does.  It sells the good and the bad without regard for which is which.  So it’s up to each of us as individuals to choose what story we buy.  (I also fail to see why being rich exempts one from the company line of working too much.)

I like to work hard at work I like.  (That last sentence is almost palindromic, isn’t it?)   But life is far more than that.  A lot of things I choose to buy don’t cost money.  I can’t get more meta than that, so I’ll sign off and do things that are fun.  And free.