Pastimes are always atavistic and they will not do for a life's structure.
When work is utterly disagreeable and week awaits weekend, our
delight in recreation reveals our misery. The Silver Bullet, like the
touch football game that precedes it, is the house of wretchedness....
Not everyone can work to extend the consciousness of others. For most of us,
the excercise of freedom -- doing what we like doing -- may best extend our own.
As Swami
Vivekananda says: "work like a master and not as a slave; work
incessantly, but do not do slave's work. Nobody can be altogether at rest;
ninety-nine percent of mankind work like slaves, and the result is misery;
it is all selfish work. Work through freedom! Work through love!"
-- Donald Hall. Life Work. (2003)