Work or Be Worked

I have come to realize how much working benefits man. Not only from the financial or social-economical stand point, but in also in an emotional and pschological stand point. Really what I'm saying is the lack of work can make a person go crazy. I think not working, provides the mind too much idle time. Time to rehearse weekness and failures of the past and projected failures of the future. We can work, or be worked by our own conscience.

" I believe in the gospel of work. Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality. There is simply no substitutue under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. I suppose that we are all inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work. A little play and a little loafing are good. But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or a woman or boy or a girl." - Gordon B. Hinckley

Additionally, I would like to make a contribution to society, I want to feel that the things I do really matter to people, that they really matter in my mind and the minds of others.

I have been reading through some words written by the former President Gordon B. Hinckley in his book Standing for Something. I'm again impressed by his view and words:

"It is not enough for any of us to get a job and feverishly work to produce income that leads to personal comfort. We may gain some recompense in all of this, but we will not gain the ultimate satisfaction... Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves. By and large, if we complain about life, its because we are thinking only of ourselves. In the long run, it will not be enough for anyone who desires a sense of fulfillment and purpose to be an able lawyer, a practitioner of medicine, a skilled architect, a proficient engineer, or whatever. We need an other dimension in our lives, a compelling need and drive within each of us to feel that somehow we have made a difference-that our lives have mattered.

It is not enough just to be good. We must be good for something. We must contrubute good to the world. The world must be a better place for our presence."