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I've seen or heard about people that do not have to work because of their formidable amount of money they inherited, and ostensibly, their lives were almost something that would exist in my imaginary world: having a swimming pool in their house and owning hundreds of bank accounts. In fact, what I felt was not jealousy, but a mere curiosity about how they would feel not having an occupation and keep spending money. At last, I figured out that it wouldn't be so happy living with enough money without a job.
First of all, why we work has another reason besides making money for living, and it is to find true aspects of ourselves. At schoo, we study different subjects and figure out what we are good at, or interested in. With those informations, we choose our occupations in the future and put lots of endeavor to be whatever we truly want. All these process are helping us find what kind of people we truly are, and when we get to fulfill our dreams and become what we conceived, we feel happiness by the fact that we are still developing ourselves in the field each of us love. Without having an occupation and the excitement of getting more proficient in one's field, life would not feel so joyful.
Furthermore, working teaches us the real meaning of taking a rest, which is to inspire and motivate us to work in a more concentrated way. There's a traditional Korean phrase: "pleasure comes when pain is gone." To interpret it in another way, it can mean that to gain true pleasure, pain of working is needed. If a person was told to have a vacation for a short time, he or she would feel very grateful and make the most out of the given time by going to various places. However, getting used to spending money would turn one's life boring and tedious. This is because the excitement of freedom comes from experiencing novelties that couldn't be found in everyday life, and if one keeps spending money and having free time for such a long time, it couldn't be a novelty anymore. This, again, emphasizes the importance of working with a job, which would help us genuinely enjoy freedom seldom given to us and get back to the normal life. Actually, I played a computer game that I didn't get a chance to play when attending school, since I was having my summer vacation and had plenty of time. But after few days, I felt that I had to do something productive as playing the game was no longer new or intriguing.
To sum up, working can also be about developing oneself and getting to know oneself better by these sequences, and also, let us know the real meaning of resting. For these reasons, I belive those people who live with enough money to spend and hence don't work wouldn't be as happy as we, average people, think.
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