I have been swamped with work the past few days. So much so that I feel that my creativity for writing has depleted. I’m sure you have noticed. Then again, maybe you haven’t. Pamper my ego and say you haven’t lah! Woohoo!

This begs the question: are having an interesting life (therefore blog fodder) and busy career mutually exclusive? Or can you have both? What if your work IS your life which basically implies that if you are busy at work then you must have an interesting life? Of course that depends on whether you love your job or you just treat it as something compulsory for survival in our modern society.

Personally I lie somewhere in between. I don’t love my job (I can’t have sex with it! Or can I??? Hmmm.) but I don’t treat it as perfunctory either. In fact if I ever hit the lottery jackpot (not that I play it, maybe I should) I wouldn’t quit my job right away. I’d still crave for something to fill out my day.

If not work, what can one do?

Life needs to have more meaning than just mere consumption. There’s only so much money one can splurge on material and sensory pleasures before you get bored of it all. Then again, if you are rich beyond belief then maybe you can do volunteer work or donate the money to worthy causes. Maybe that will make one feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Spiritual wealth, yeah that’s it.

Money can’t buy happiness but if you have loads of it, you can forget about the mundane trivialities of life and focus on your inner being and be *really* happy. Though that’s not neccesarily true either: the less wealthy can still be happy and spiritually fulfilled.

Gah! What is my point?! Shite, I’m sorry to dissapoint you but I don’t have one. The above were thoughts that popped in and out of my head amidst working my geeky ass off. I have tried to string them together as coherently as possible. Did I succeed? Pamper my ego and say yes lah! Woohoo!