Work as the Main Joy of Life: Why Your Career Is the One True Choice You Make

Work as Life Purpose: A Thought Worth Sitting With

“I believe that work is the greatest joy in any normal person’s life. And that joy depends entirely on the person themselves.”

— Anna Matveyeva, Every Hundred Years

When Everything Else Can Let You Down

Beauty and youth fade quickly — and for some of us, youth leaves before beauty even arrives. Family and friends can disappoint. Children don’t always grow up to be who we imagined. Even a man who swore his love today will be saying those exact same words to another woman tomorrow, while we sob in some bushes — not necessarily picturesque ones.

The One Choice That Belongs Only to You

We cannot choose our parents or our children. We cannot choose where we are born or where we will die. Even our friends and the people we love — this I believe deeply — are not truly chosen by us. They are chosen by chance and fate, playing some game of checkers, perhaps letting us win, perhaps not.

But there is one choice that almost always rests with us alone. More than that: it is the one thing we bear full and complete responsibility for.

Your Work Is the One True Choice — and It Will Never Leave You

That choice is our work. Our profession, our calling, our craft. It will always lend a shoulder, scatter the clouds overhead, and dry even the most bitter of tears.

Happy holiday.