The importance of loving what you do in life is often muted when the time comes to make career choices. It is downplayed as a nice thought, a hope or dream only and not a requirement or necessity. We don’t always become a professional baseball player but we should love what we do just the same:
Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and voices of the night.
- Kahlil Gibran on Work, “The Prophet”
