I’ve just come off a big dose of flu—or bout of flu. I’m trying to get my bearings, obtain balance and calm again after the unnatural invasion of my body. Let me go get a cup of tea and I’ll finish this post. Hold on.
Okay, I’m back. I find the ritual of tea making, and the ritual of drinking tea, a slow and calming process. One thing I picked up that I found pretty interesting was when I went to a recent party. It was a party of a friend who I’ve known for many years. Now, most of the people there were pretty happy people. All of them had worked hard for what they have obtained in life. And those who are still working—and their children who are working—work hard too. You can see the values that come through from hard work. They are decent, honest people. It’s good knowing this.
There are so many people in this country who are criminals. It’s the great tragedy of this country that for 30 years it has been run by criminals and looted by criminals. The country has always been a tragedy from its very start, but its tragic story gained epic proportions over the past 30 years through criminals.
But keeping on this subject—because those who claim to have a liberal agenda believe that there is a conspiracy in hard work. Obviously, those who don’t work hard see those who work hard as conspirators against them. I saw something the other day that made my eyes pop and think for a moment. It was something along the lines of: Hard work is a conspiracy by—you know who—against—you know who. I can’t believe it. It’s a joke, but it’s not a joke in the sense that people have stooped so far, so low, that they’re just really degrading themselves by spouting such absolute bile.
I’ve not been rally-rousing for hard work. There is a place for hard work, and hard work is important. But right from the start, I realized that if you want to get somewhere, hard work is not going to do it for you. You have to find ways to reduce or cut out the hard work. You’re going to have to find ways to do things better. You need to improve the systems that you’ve got. You need to do better as a person on all fronts. So yes, I believe in hard work—but if you can do something more cleverly, cut out or reduce time and replace it with something else, that’s even better.
