There will be honey – praising or cursing labour?

Last Updated on August 1, 2016 by Patrick

Confucius said one day: “Do what you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

I really love his saying and I think it became a cornerstone in my life. Now I try to guide myself according to this.

Of course, I thought often about the meaning or the purpose of me being here. What would I live for? It is one of my questions.

Each and everyone of us has a purpose, or course, a mission one has to fulfill in life. It could be anything, professionally related or something else. Often we think about it and struggle to find it, but it always seems to elude us. We are chasing our purpose, our meaning in life, and it seems to run away from us. I can only think of not chasing it anymore instead wait to come to us.

Hundreds of years ago we were in the so called era of Illuminism in which we were supposed to revolutionize ourselves as human beings. It supposed to help us. It was a movement that promised a lot. Unfortunately, we ruined it with our greed and envy. We ruined it because we wanted other kinds of results and we also wanted to control everything about us. We wanted to also control the world. We failed misserably.

But what came of us now? I think that history is repeating itself but this time it’ll be more devastating because we are more hungry and more thirsty. But nevertheless, there will be honey in our lives.. I feel it.. only if we turn our tides.

I think what we need to do is, first, to get back to nature. As I have said in my previous post about the sustainability of our planet, Mother Nature is the one that generates and regenerates everything. We truly are Mother Nature’s children, whether we like it or not. Even if this sounds a bit like I am preaching, we actually feel the urge to do this more and more. I, myself, feel like there’s no other way.

Second, we need to explore ourselves thoroughly. There are a lot of thing we don’t know about ourselves.

Third, I think we should resolve all of our conflicts and struggles, whethere they are within us or with our fellow men.

Today, 21st of April, 2014, I visited a new place in my country. Actually, I’ve been there before, but only passing by. I went to Buda village, just off Ploiesti City, some 70km north of Bucharest. I saw that there are vast rapeseed fields and in full bloom this spring. I felt the need to go there and do some nature photography. I visited the fields and the nearby oak forest and shot a lot of beautiful rapeseed photos etc. For those of you who don’t know what rapeseed is.. rapeseed, or rapaseed is a medicinal flowering plant that can be cultivated in vast areas and among many goods that it can give us, canola oil can be produced from its seeds.

So I was photowalking and I knew that where there are rapeseed fields, there must be beehives there. I immediately had an idea. What if I shot some macro of bees harvesting the flower for nectar in order to make rapeseed honey, one of the best types of honey in our country, after the acacia flowers honey and fir honey, pine honey or spruce honey etc. These are the best and the most delicious, plus they can very hardly become sugared. Anyways, I went into wildlife and macro photography mode. :D It was interesting!

I used my telephoto lens and I’ve been on the prowl for bees harvesting pollen getting their sacks full. I was rewarded. My time there was more than enough but my patience was put to the test. I’ve never done this before and I had to force myself a little to be patient and wait for the right moment. I also used my burst mode and shot continuously as many frames as I could to get the right moment I wanted. I was prowling for the moment when the bees are flying near the flowers with their sacks full. This image portrays my message very well.

Coming back to my discussion about purpose, about a fulfilled life and about work or not to work, I figured that we struggle very much because we are not yet on the right tracks.. our tracks. That is why we have to work because I feel we are somehow cursed by our own mind. I mean, we should be doing what we love and not feel any efforts in doing it, but unfortunately most of us are not yet fulfilling our work here. We are not yet inspired. So, doing what we love is not working at all? Or should work, then, become more pleasant? But how to do it with love or love what we do?

So, we have to fulfill our destiny, I believe we have to cooperate with the Universe, with Mother Nature. We have to become normal and balanced. That is what I feel I need to do for myself and it is not just me. Many of us feel the same way, if not all of us, although we express it differently.

I also believe that if we continue on these tracks of our lives on which we are right now, we will limit ourselves and we will become totally mechanical, like robots uncapable of thinking, feeling and acting for themselves. Is this the life we want? I don’t think this is living, I think this is being dead.

This article will become useless if our destiny will be fulfilled.