8.5.2012
Why they say the wrong things
If you look around you, you will see that there are shadows and ghosts of people upset by you who are trying to tell you something. I increasingly get this message from infertile or excessively excited beings that I should work with passion. And I hate them the more for it. The whole idea is to work with detachment, but if you put passion in your everyday jobs, then there is really no guarantee that you will be a success at work. Many people who have tried to win lovers, but have failed turn their passion towards work.
I think that being passionate about your work does not imply that you show love for it, for if that were the case, there would be no place for objectivity, or a third person perspective. It’s people who are jilted or who really believe that the world works around only the lowly passion of love, who would preach this way of life.
My life has been an example on the contrary. There were many urban, feminist women who laid the example of a detached way of life before us, and when some stupid, disgruntled and petty elements fail to work objectively, then they start preaching passion at work.
This is obviously not serious work that these pathetic people refer to. I don’t think number crunching, balance sheets, or technical work can really bring out the passion in anyone. Also, for me as a writer, writing for everything under the sun needs objectivity, educated opinions, and a flair for descriptive writing. Don’t you just want to snap at the lowly mongrels who pick up all these strange cues from die hard romantics? Did you know that even Romantics have God as the ultimate aim?
I don’t know why but this approach just reeks of mediocrity and the collective effort to tear an excellent person down. I’m not against love, but to pull love in the sphere of work means you’re blurring the professional and personal boundary, and no professional would like to do that.
So, instead of preaching false ideals, why can’t you just wake up and smell the rotten taste of a sour puss coffee??
