Doing nothing - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Doing nothing - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog From Quitting the Paint Factory, a beautiful essay by Mark Slouka, from the November 2004 issue of Harpers Magazine. When I was young, my parents read me Aesops fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper, wherein, as everyone knows, the grasshopper spends the summer making music in the sun while the ant toils with his fellow formicidae. Inevitably, winter comes, as winters will, and the grasshopper, who hasnt planned ahead and who doesnt know what a 401K is, has run out of luck. When he shows up at the ants door, carrying his fiddle, the ant asks him what he was doing all year: I was singing, if you please, the grasshopper replies, or something to that effect. You were singing? says the ant. Well, then, go and sing. And perhaps because I sensed, even then, that fate would someday find me holding a violin or a manuscript at the door of the ants, my antennae frozen and my hills overdue, I confounded both Aesop and my well-meaning parents, and bore away the wrong moral. That summer, many a wind-blown grasshopper was saved from the pond, and many an anthill inundated under the golden rain of my pee. Via Boingboing. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related