Since childhood we have been told about effort as a duty, hard work as an obligation, and a result oriented investment. We are told, “Work hard so that you can have dividends later on.”
Happiness is the key to success, correct. But does happiness exclude hard work?
If happiness excludes hard work, then all those who work hard surely must be very sad.
Can’t we work hard happily? Can’t hard work emerge out of Joy?
For us, happiness and hard work don’t go hand-in-hand. But there is another kind of hard work, very energetic hard work, which arises from your happiness, which arises from your completeness, and it’s not result oriented.
It’s like a herd of deer running in a jungle. It’s not that a tiger is chasing them (saving their life), and it’s not like they are running towards a grassland (driven by the desire to consume). They are just running and they are running terribly hard; you can’t catch them.
Our hard work is just labour done to get results. And the results that we want, never really satisfy us. The proof is, that we want more. At no point do we stop and say that we have had enough. And because we want more, we have to put in more labour.
