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"You will always find an answer in the sound of water."

​- Zhuangzi

A Child's Future

1/28/2018

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​“What do you want to be when you grow up?”


“Why do I have to become something?”

“Because it is good to find something to do for a job and a career.”

“What should I do?”

“Whatever you like to do that makes a good wage.”

“What if I don’t want to do anything?”

“That is no excuse, you must find something.”

“But if I don’t want to do anything and choose something still, I will not like what I am doing.”

“So be it; better to have something to do than nothing at all.”

“Why is that?”

“Because when you do nothing you will be restless and unfulfilled.”

“Necessarily?”

“Necessarily.”

“What if I like to do nothing?”

“Liking to do nothing will not put food on the table.”

“What if liking to do nothing can put food on the table?”

“How could that happen?”

“What if people give me food?”
“That is called freeloading and an embarrassing thing for an able-bodied man to do.”

“What if I make the food myself?”

“You would have found the thing to do then.”

“What if I don’t want to do that?...”

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