Live to work or work to live

Channa's picture

It is inevitable that we must shoulder foreseen and unforeseen pressure in today's quick fix society. In such cases, most people are puzzled by the meaning of living and working. From my point of view, both play a significant and necessary role in our daily lives so that we should strike a balance between them. My reasons can be illustrated in the following points.

On one hand ,  I 'd like to point out that people can not live without working. Working does not merely make us feel the sense of existing, sense of belonging or sense of success, but also allows us to realize our values of individual and society. In a word, working is necessary for survival that it helps us find the meaning of living. On the other hand, life is short and time is swift, so therefore, we should make full use of our life and enjoy a happy life. Although we are busy working in the prime of our life, we should hold a further sight that health is more precious and important than working - which is always accompanied by human eager for money, fame, power, etc .

Thus, it can be concluded that neither living nor working be isolated regardless of another part. To lead a better and happier life, we should strike a balance between them in such sensible way.

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Ni Ai Jun's picture

Your question makes me think of another very interesting one:which came first, the chicken or the egg?As far as I am concerned,one has to work in order to live and work is of great significance to our life for it can gain you resrect form the society.However,we should also learn to enjoy our life.We should know that there are many things in our life besides work.

heather's picture

work to live. I need to work to earn money.So that I have money to travel around.

Dan_Lee's picture

Though it's obvious that most people work for live right now and i can't deny that after we enter the real society,we will change our ideas.But on my point of view,i guess i will live for work,for my deepest desire and my dream.

RachelQiu's picture

sometimes when i consider carefully , my perspective is self-contraditory.anyway i support to enjoy live.

Tristin's picture

Hey, Channa. Great writing. We SHOULD keep our lives and works in balance, but that's one difficult balance to stike. Would you agree? So, do you have any insightful views as to how we can get that balance? I personally believe that to love your work is the way out. ;-)

Channa's picture

Attitude comes first!Place yourself under a atmosphere of Happiness.And then,u will feel a unforeseen strength to push u forward ,u will be grateful to everything in the world.Being a happy and positive person will cherry u up and drag u out of workaholic.

Tristin's picture

Attitude. Good answer!

Judy Guan's picture

We go out for work just for earning much more money.When we earn more money,we will use it to buy whatever we want.So,we work to live ,we earn money to live,doesn't it?

Channa's picture

We do need money to sustain our daily life,but we don`t need too much money because money can`t buy everything,right? The object of living is not that purchase after money.We deserve a happy and comfortable life !

Zhang Qianru's picture

I think it is for life to work, life down is to live, in order to better life, so our job is to live, to make money, contributions to the society and make our life environment better

Channa's picture

Strike a balance between life &work enjoys priority,
none of us want to be a working machine,right? :)

Umbrella's picture

A good topic. As you have mentioned that most people are puzzled by the meaning of living and working because of the quick fix society, I hope we won't be that in the future. Enjoy working, enjoy living.

Channa's picture

ENJOY LIVING,ENJOY WORKING~TO BE A REALLY HAPPY PERSON!

阿winnie's picture

We live in a fast-paced society.Walking slows us down.

Channa's picture

i enjoy walking alone,such a comfortable way to get rid of annoying affairs for a while.

it could make us feel better after a daylong work or study. :)

RachelQiu's picture

work is a part of the live , but live include study , work, get marry ahd so on.we should enjoy the live ,rather than work to live.

Channa's picture

I CAN`T AGREE U MORE~