Random Thought

[teyla]

So I've been thinking about this thing people often say in discussions about topics like What if I won the lottery? or similar things.

"I don't even want to not to have to work anymore. If I didn't have to work, what would I do all day?"

Every time I hear this, I realize again how sad this is. People need work to fulfill them - why? I know I myself would be perfectly happy if I didn't have to fulfill any obligations. I have enough ways to entertain myself and be happy. I do get bored, sure, but bored enough to resort to work to keep me busy? Surely not.

How about you?

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[neery.livejournal.com]

We've talked about this thing before, I think, so you know my opinion, but on a totally related note, ahaha, I finally found out why the boyfriend is coming over every night right now: He stopped smoking, so he also stopped smoking pot, so right now he can't lie around and get high in front of the TV - which means he lost the last and only thing he can do to entertain himself without the help of other people.. LOL. Oh extroverts, how they baffle me.

But, yeah, I think this is part of the answer to that whole thing: It's maybe one of the extrovert/introvert differences. Most introverts can entertain themselves all the time, but other people to entertain the extroverts aren't available all the time, so they need work to fill those moments where the alone-time gets to be too much.

(Of course then there are also the people who just plain love their work, lucky bastards, and the ones who actually feel the need to contribute to the good of the world, which makes them better people than me, I guess, although probably not happier.)

[teyla]

Ahahaha, poor BF! You should give him a big cardboard box full of chips and chewing gum. He can eat that while watching TV xD.

Yeah, really extremely extroverted people (like that friend I told you about, the one who nevar evar shuts up) need other people to entertain them. But I don't think that it necessarily means that they need to work. That friend, for example, would be perfectly happy not to be in a job and to use the lottery money to travel the world and meet as many people as possible. And talk to each single one of them for hours on end, lol xD.