As I was working today, doing a monthly physical copy and file job that is tedious and unforgiving in its demand for keen and acute attention, I had a revelation! It was a big revelation! It was a true epiphany!!!!!

It goes in context with a conversation I had with a particularly close-minded close relative this past weekend. We were talking — (about the space between us all, etc,. etc.) (or demonstrating and manifesting the space between us all, more like it) — about work and retirement and such-like that people getting on our age begin to talk about at these major life-marking rituals. Anyway, I was asked when I would retire. I answered that “it would behoove me to work another ten years”. This was met with disdainful incredulity. I was follow-up asked “do you *have* to?”. And I quickly said “NO. I didn’t say I *have* to. I don’t *have* to! I could quit tomorrow if I wanted to. I said that it would *behoove* me to work another ten years.

I was ruminiscing [sic] on that very conversation as I worked. I was so reminiscing and ruminating in such manner deliberately in lieu of whistling, I suppose. Then it occurred to me: the happiest people are the ones who learn to love their work. And this prompted me to think more deeply about what I had just said/thought to myself. Yes, love. And, thinking more about it, I realized that I am indeed “in love” with work. That is I do look forward to my day each morning and I enjoy my day and I’m good at what I do and I m happy doing it. And realizing this, I realized that it’s up to me: I can truly cultivate myself into being “in love” with work.

This is something that can really be done and I am very close to this. With a little more concentrated awareness, intention and focused consciousness and conscious intent I can truly be in love with work in a very stable and rewarding way.

This is true too with actual love between a being and another intimate being. This kind of “in love” can be real. One can truly appreciate and enjoy being around another, seeing another, going through things with another and sharing with another. Some people get otherwise notions of what “love” is to them. And the looking forward to and the attractions of and the joy froms in such “love” do have a much more intense (and almost despairingly desperate) element to them. The intensity of “love” to some people indicates and matches in proportion to “real”. But I haven’t really seen this all as stable in my experience, and though I am a quite different human being to every other human being there is I don’t think I’m absolutely that unique.

I like being in love with work and I like being in love where I’m in love. I can see and appreciate this. And this is real for me. Don’t tell me I’m in denial. Learn to be open and not closed. For the real key to love and spiritual bliss is simply receptivity. Learn to cultivate it. Change attitudes and change the world.Or at least that’s what I say. You don’t have to do a thing the way I do it. You don’t have to see a thing the way I see it.

Peace out.