Arbeit Macht Frei
by Vasil KolevI hadn’t written anything on the desktop PC in a while (and I’m still using ssh to the other one)…
In the last few days around Peyo’s blog I found the expression from $title – I’ve read on the topic of the death camps, but hadn’t paid attention to it, and decided that for the first of May it can be used to write something fitting :)
(to clear things up – this has NOTHING to do with death camps and related topics)
The expression “The work will set you free” sounds pretty much fitting for me. It’s a source of infinite number of entertainments (e.g. problems to solve), of new things, which I learn from – and they even pay me… In fact it makes me free (or doesn’t obstruct my freedom :) ).
(someone might say that it’s not so – it’s a bit hard to find time for some side things, like drinking, writing lectures, etc., that I’m tired most of the time (which is always like this :) ), but in the end I manage to do what I’ve decided is good, and can’t remember something being able to stop me :) ).
First I had decided to write this from the point-of-view of the computer people, but then I remembered – how many of them/us have a job that makes them/us free? How many do complain that it restricts them, that it’s dull, but they have no choice (you have to live off something), etc.? Some of them complain just for the sport – the fatigue makes does that to people – but the rest really feel that way. Their work makes them slaves…
And here I’ll go a bit in another of my ideas (e.g. an Idea that I believe in, not that I’ve created it – I’m too lazy to look up the source) – that everyone carries his own choices and their consequences, and that there’s always choice. Not that we like it, but it’s always there. There’s nobody else to blame.
(maybe if we wail a little less and do some more things, it would be better?:) )
Arbeit Macht Frei – depends only on us.
(and even thought that the expression is associated with some other things and shows on the whiteboards of some companies after the people have worked until 4 in the morning – as a complaint, but also as an realisation … )