March 19, 2010
to unify work and love
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Sigmund Freud once said that in order to be truly happy in life, a human being needed to acquire two things: The capacity to work, and the capacity to love.
“EVIL PLANS” is really about being able to do both, at the same time.
This is my tenth year blogging. I’ve done a lot of stuff since I started. Published cartoons, sold wine, sold suits, pimped Microsoft, sold art, written e-books, ranted on endlessly about marketing and all sorts…
But looking back, I realize it all served a served a common purpose: to unify work and love.
Then I notice, the people who read my blog the most avidly, and the bloggers I tend to read most avidly, hell yeah, they’re mostly trying to do the same thing too, in their own way. It’s a definite pattern.
To unify work and love. Are you one of these people? If not, don’t you think you should be? I mean, after friends and family, what the hell is there?
Just askin’…
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Easier said than done but a nice goal to have. Great cartoon, too — kind of reminds me of some of the folks that I’ve seen who have forgotten your second-to-last-line there — and regretted it later.
Well said!
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“Easier said than done”? Really? Gee, who woulda thunk?
hookers and whiskey?
so after years and years you managed to drag me off the rss feed pipe to overcome the barrier to commenting?
That’s actually one of the few things Freud said that I agree with.
That and this one: “Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
It happens to be true… you just did.
Unifying work and love? I’m working on it, or is it I’m loving on it? Language change time?
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I agree with Freud, but he wasn’t talking about unifying the two. That said it is wonderful when one can find work that they love.
“To unify work and love.” –definitely working on it now. Yes, it is much easier said than done…but we all know they say the things worth doing aren’t going to be easy.
My only regret is that I was past the age of 30 before I realized I should try to unify work and love…now hoping 40 will be the new 30!
angry at what we become in the process of schlepping to pay the bills
ooh yeah!
trying to create a new reality
one day at a time
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Like the cartoon.
How do you reconcile unification of work and love with the Ignore Everybody advice to keep the day job you’re less emotionally attached to? I particularly liked that bit of advice.
Cinderkeys: Short Answer: The same way one reconciles hating changing diapers and loving being a parent.
It’s only work if you don’t want to do it etc…
I don’t know about love, but I have the passion, and it’s hard to endure.
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What Freud has stated just says it all and the modification that we do just makes it better.
Unifying work and love just leads to satisfaction which in turn makes men truly happy!
Sorry, little late to the party here, just discovered your work.
Just wanted to tell you the cartoon takes my breath away. Thank you.
Åker man till Wien så rekommenderar jag att man går och besöker Sigmund Freud Museet och självklart alla fina parker i Wien.