Philosophy fry up

It's a very nice day today. Little wind and no rain or snow. I can't claim it's warm but warmth means nothing when you're being active anyway (most of the time - remind me to write a post about hunter's reflex some day). So I've been out at last, trying to finish that raised bed for the fruit trees, digging holes and wheel barrowing - hard work - oxygen gasping stuff.

Why?

I came across this quote somewhere - can't remember where but it went something like:

Live each day as if you'll die tomorrow. Farm each day as if you'll live forever.

I find this quite inspiring. The improvements we can make on this little croft are so small, so minutely incremental that it's easy to wonder why and avoid things cos, well really it aint gonna make much difference is it?

Then I came across this (here):

A quote from the Bhagavad Gita, an epic Hindu poem:

“To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction.”

I find this one quite challenging, though I do understand it in the context of trying to make changes to avert climate change.

But this is just pure madness isn't it? (here):

“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.” - Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)

I object to being forced to work - to do things I don't want to do, but I am content with doing unpleasant things because they are contributing to a bigger picture. I think there's a big difference.