tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16084741723001916.post7427556797204386764..comments2021-10-31T01:07:04.409-07:00Comments on Woman at a Crossroads: The Sky Fell While I Was at WorkSteelerFanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17301622415031642154noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16084741723001916.post-50538899138788296102011-07-16T11:47:37.775-07:002011-07-16T11:47:37.775-07:00I think of people like the 2,000 day man and Ayn R...I think of people like the 2,000 day man and Ayn Rand as sad. They are so afraid of not being adequate or equipped to engage in the emotional side of their lives that they are willing to just amputate it in favor of the more easier managed "work/intellectual" tasks and call it success. The goals of industry are easier to meet and have a much more tangible and immediate reward than say, making and keeping friends, falling in love, or even just making interesting conversation. <br /><br />I know the time I spent leaning over a velvet rope to stare at the brush strokes of a Kahlo painting were not productive in the cost/benefit sense of the word that Rand or 2,000 day man would understand, but I know the power and beauty of that image will stay in my mind forever. If you asked me to describe one of the hundreds of budgets, reports, letters, and charts I have produced in my work life, I am sure for the "life" of me, I would not be able to do so. I doubt 2,000 day man could either - or maybe he could. I don't know which of those two outcomes is worse.<br /><br />“The contemplation of beauty causes the Soul to sprout wings” –PlatoValerie Quarleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12168270050721941614noreply@blogger.com