I have now been working at a factory for two months. My job takes me into a variety of different departments doing a variety of different tasks. I have directly observed nearly every department of a medium sized company. On observing the various employees I have noticed there is a difference between them. Some individuals take care in what they do, performing their appointed tasks with attention to detail and a certain amount of finesse. Others simply accomplish the task at hand in the way that is most convenient and expeditious, not necessarily producing an mechanically inferior product but definitely departing from a standard of the highest quality. It turns out that to some people a job worth doing isn’t worth doing well.
We are living in a Darwinian world. People who take shortcuts won’t last long in this world.
Sometimes, I think I can relate to both samples.
To appreciate life to the most minute degree would, I think, cause us to take joy in even what seem to be the most insignificant actions, giving purpose to doing a job well on even the smallest of scales.
To be overwhelmed by creation, though, can create a sort of false, glass-half-empty sense of reality. Tasks are compared to the vastness of space and time in which we exist and they take a truly insignificant shade. Atop that, many of us continue to perform these seemingly insignificant tasks out of the knowledge that it pays the bills.
C’est la vie.