From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 23:49:03 MDT
Olga wrote:
[snip]
> Work is work. Creativity is much more fun (and, as you
>say, "unless creativity is your work"). I also agree with you, that
>"[C]reativity is life."
>
Work is easy. Creativity is a tyrant that drags you around and forces
you to explicate it at any cost. It enforces this tyranny by making you
feel emotions that you can't get anywhere else, that are totally
addictive, and that are, often, for me, a complete sensory overload in
which control is lost, reason is absent-without-leave and things like
sleeping and eating are out of the question because it will brook no
interruption or interference. It makes you care more about it than you
do about your own family, more than you care about yourself, your
health, even your life
[snip].
> Many people work in order to be able to have that
>leisure time to pursue their more creative hobbies.
>
>Olga
>
Not sure I get that...people work in order to have leisure? Surely one
gets more leisure time to be creative if one does not work? That's the
problem. Creativity makes you fall in love with it and spend all day
(night) making love with it instead of doing anything practical. You
have to tear yourself away and suffer the withdrawal symptoms. But in
the immortal words of Star Trek's Data after his first drink..."I hate
this. It is revolting.".....(Guinan):"More?".....(Data): "Yes please".
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