This planet doesn’t care about you.
It will live long after you and I are gone. This might make you uncomfortable.
Whatever you do today will more than likely only benefit those who come after you. Do you help because you truly put others before yourself? Or perhaps it’s to satisfy your conscience. Or gain good karma.
But that’s awfully selfish, isn’t it?
Set the scene for your life.
Or should I say, for your lifestyle? If all the world’s a stage, then where you live is a scene. Scene 1 might be your childhood home. Scene 2 might be your home away from home. Scene 3 might be your first apartment. Which scene are you living in now?
Every place you live in will eat you up then spit you out. Only once do you enter the world as a fresh human being. Each time you relocate, you are not starting fresh. You are reborn.
In other rudimentary words, you are vomit.
Workplace or workspace?
You can alter your workspace according to your desires, but your alterations will always be overshadowed by your workplace.
Your workspace can become whatever you want it to be. However, you have to become what your workplace wants you to be.
Thirdly, you are neither your workspace nor your workplace. They are merely traces of your existence. They are not you. You are not them. You are you.
One more thing… Your environment changes you.
Changing your climate is always a good idea. It transitions you from one scene to another. In your new environment, your habits are forced to find new creative ways in order to survive. This can be fatiguing.
Like the weather, you can never predict how bothersome your life gets whenever you plant yourself in a new foreign climate. Not only will your workplace affect how you feel, but also the language of your commute will determine how you think and how you act — the noise, the waiting, the smells, the distractions, the awkwardness, the inattention, the energy.
It follows then that the results of your work are dependent on your environment. Work is not just a product of your mind. Your mind is only a vessel through which work flows. Think about how you work. Since there are always other sources at play making your work necessary, you are thus not the source of your work. You are simply a collector, a compiler, an anthologist of disparate sources in need of attention.
You are in the middle, always.
Connect yourself to unconnected locations.
Reset yourself into distinct modes of action. Join an infrastructure. Cherish your surroundings.
If not now, then when? If not here, then where? If not you, then who?