We Should Live to Work or Work to Live.doc

We Should Live to Work or Work to LiveSome people have asked a question that if you were not working to live, what would you want to do? There is no standard answers to this question. Some one said they want to travel around the world, eat various food, experience different culture and custom; some one said they want look after their children and foster them to be successful people; some one said they just want to get some leisure time to read a good book, drink a cup of tea, and enjoy the sunshine of afternoon. Actually, work is an important part of the meaning of life. When people are almost stifled by the pressure from fierce social competition, their notion about work will be changed. Work become boring and annoying,and something that people dont want to do, but have to do to make a living. Most people are always engaged in struggling for house, car, money, status,and power. If they have gained one of the material success, they want to fight for more satisfaction. The conclusion is that peoples desire is endless. In the process of pursuing material, people lose the ability of enjoying life. The success become something that we always pursue at the cost of our health and happiness but we never meet, because no one can define the final success. If our aim is to get a satisfied life style, why we should pay for the hardships of life which come from our desire?Rich and poor have different life styles and life aims. What the poor people want to know is how to live in the competitive society. What the rich people think about is how to keep their wealth and status and how to live better. Therefore, everyone living in this world aim at living better than current situation. In order to reach this goal, what people fight for, such as money and power, are meaningless when they only can be got at the cost of health and happiness. It looks like contradictory that we aim at struggle for material to live better, but at the process of working we lose the enjoyment of life. However, if we changed our notion, maybe our world could be changed. The aim of living is not to work, because there are still much beautiful emotions and meaningful things are worth pursuing in the world. The aim of working is not to live, because when work is regarded as a tool for make a living, the meaning of life is to find a decent road to approach death. Therefore, my choice is that try my best to work by the attitude that living is to work, and try my best to live by the attitude that everything is worth enjoying in our life not just work.Living to work means that we should not treat work as a tool of wooing fame and fortune, but concentrate on it, just like finish our mission. Nowadays, more and more people feel tired and painful for unsatisfied current situation. The fierce competition reshaped peoples attitude of working by a utilitarian and hypocritical value. People live in the world by relying on the satisfaction of basic means of substance. Some people think that if it is unnecessary to worry about the lack of material, it is also no need to work. Nevertheless, the fact that some rich person are also unhappy proved that to live or to live better, people still need something psychological, such as the feeling of safety, the sense of belonging, the sense of identity from outsides, sense of respect and self-respect and continuous self-improvement and self-realization. Unceasing challenges can offer unceasing motivation to people. Remaining idle will ruin people in spirit, which is always ignored. Working to live means doesnt means that we must struggle for making a living at the coast of our health and enjoyment of life, doesnt means we should treat work as the only approach to live better. It means that only working can urge people to find the direction of life, or else the life is like a boat without sail floats on the endless sea, waiting for the day that it was doomed to sink soundlessly. We will be idle and aimless without working, and will be whiney and painful with exhausting work. To some extend, the successful man is not a workaholic, but a enjoyer of work. They can grasp every second in life to enjoy love, friendship, family love, sunshine, clear air, wonderful scenery, even boring work is worth enjoying, because they also regard boring work as a kind of experi