{"id":38580,"date":"2013-08-27T20:11:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T02:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/creating-a-life-that-reflects-your-values-and-satisfies-your-soul-quot.html"},"modified":"2013-08-27T20:11:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T02:11:47","slug":"creating-a-life-that-reflects-your-values-and-satisfies-your-soul-quot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/creating-a-life-that-reflects-your-values-and-satisfies-your-soul-quot.html","title":{"rendered":""Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul …&quot…"},"content":{"rendered":"
"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul …"<\/b><\/p>\n

'… is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it\u2019s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential \u2014 as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.<\/i><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you\u2019re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you\u2019ll hear about them.<\/i><\/p>\n

To invent your own life\u2019s meaning is not easy, but it\u2019s still allowed, and I think you\u2019ll be happier for the trouble.'<\/i><\/p>\n

— Bill Watterson, Kenyon College commencement address 1990<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Zen Pencils does Bill Watterson. An excellent quote that makes me miss Calvin & Hobbes<\/i> deeply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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BILL WATTERSON: A cartoonist’s advice<\/a>
\n Bill Watterson is the artist and creator of (in my humble opinion) the greatest comic strip of all time, Calvin and Hobbes. I was a bit too young to appreciate it while it was originally published from 1985-1995, but I started devouring the book collections soon after.\n <\/p>\n

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