The term 'hard work' is touted as relating to some value other than, what?, soft work or laziness?

The issue that comes to mind is stress. Without stress it's hard to imagine the building of muscles, intellect, emotion and stamina.

Some bodies may be better adapted at physical exertion, and other may then have to exploit their intellect to make up for a lack of physical ability. But lets not make any bones about it, to be a consumer means developing stamina.

A person, with or without ample bodily abilities will have good stamina if they can spread the stress of acquisition for their consumptive desire over the range of abilities, physical, intellectual and emotional.

So the not so obscure secret for an average able body is to ensure their lifestyle is equally demanding in all three spheres. Someone who is ill prepared to do this may well whinge that life is hard, life is a bore and that they work too hard. What they mean is that they think they should acquire more for less work.

It's all relative to consumption, the more you want the more you work, and if you take care to work on the body, intellect and emotions in healthy proportions work is never hard, but just enjoyable enough to do as little as possible to satiate your desires.

Consumerism is an animal, nay material characteristic, it not human. As a great ape, or one of the homo sapiens, each strives to consume to remove the fear of emptiness. The soul cannot be empty or filled. So whilst the intellect has the ability to identify with the soul, let the human be free to wander the cosmos whilst the ape learns to cease the emotional and physical struggle to continue consuming.

Age is not the issue but intellect is. Those homo sapiens that tout or use the words 'hard work' have a degree of intellect that is not guided by cognitive intelligence, but more by memory. Politicians must rely on votes so memory is their undoing, yet they must obey the rules.

I once heard or read a story that I will place in the first person and reiterate, expand, update, embellish and adapt it with my more recent thoughts and relevance.

I once came across someone, who's dark cloak cast an unusually large shadow. carrying a lamp. They seemed to be searching for something. Given my desire to emotionally engage I offered assistance and asked if they had lost something. Given a positive answer I then asked what it was that was lost, to be told it was a key. On a role of vulture like scavenging the situation I asked if it was important, a dumb question really as why else would the search be in dark, and the searcher carrying a lamp in an out of the way forgotten place. The place being so forgettable I cannot remember, to this day, where I met the searcher.

Undisturbed by my interference and dumb question I was assured it was very important to find the key, whereupon I offered to help. The offer accepted I asked if there was any memory of when the key was last used and where it could be. The answer was rather disappointing as the searcher, who by name known now as Hermit, said memory was of little use and most of it was discarded on the way.

A little frustrated I promptly retorted, "what makes you think it may find it here" which seems rather philosophical rather that helpful. Hermit replied that he had no idea where it could be, but this is the only place there is light.

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