What is this life, if full of care/we have no time to stand and stare
Spotted in an ad at the side of the escalator this a.m. 'Travel yourself interesting', to which I thought, no, it doesn't work like that and if you are not interesting to begin with, doing some kind of experience tourism bucket list will not make you so.
And this intersected with a post I was meditating based on these two links, which I had open in tabs and then thought went well together:
Work-life balance is dead -- here's why that might be a good thing (blud thikkt with cold).
If that doesn't have you screaming and running in ever-decreasing circles (I want to smack these eager-beavers' little fingers with a ruler and make them stop, because diminishing returns folks! diminishing returns! there was a business case for the 8 hour day!) - how about this?
Why time is a feminist issue.
Which is not actually news to me, having read Clare Langhamer on women and leisure in Britain, 1920-1960 and the picture it paints of fragmented scraps of downtime with something that could be picked up and put down - there was a sound reason for the remarked-upon bitty nature of e.g. pieces in women's mags - because these women only had a short amount of attention span to give.
Perhaps if people got off that treadmill and did something else, or didn't do something else but just chilled, they would be more interesting people and wouldn't have to swim with sharks just to try to be that? This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2245539.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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