In our lives we have some responsibilities. When we are children we have to study, when we are young we have to learn and get some skill for our future jobs and then try to get one, and when we are older, I mean, adults we have to work. As you can see, the most part of our lives we are working or preparing ourselves for working. Working is an important part of our lives, because we use round forty years doing that activity. It is a huge amount of time and we are not considering the time that we spend studying.
But there is another thing which is with us during our whole life. I am talking about the family. Our family is with us since the moment when we were born and probably it will be with us when we die. Our whole life is shaped by these two aspects. Some people have a lot of problems trying to join both of them, for that there is not so much people who success in this.
A problem of our current society is that if we spend time with our family, we have less time for working, and if we work more than usual, for example work overtime, we have less time to spend with our family. What should we do? This is a very hard question if you think quickly and try to find an answer, but if you think over, you will see that the answer is pretty easy.
There is a very funny movie which is called “Click”. The argument has and important topic, but I will not explain the whole story, I will just explain the main part of the movie. What I want you to do is to notice a sentence which is said at the end of the movie, it says: “family is first”. If we meditate this sentence and if we have ever seen the movie, we can conclude that the family is the most important thing in the world, in our whole life. The work is not first and it must not be first, due to the fact that we can change our job, but we will never be able to change our family and our family will always be supporting us, do you think our boss or our workmates will support us? I do not think so.
In the story “The Jack Randa Hotel”, we can read that Gail did something similar: she put the family before the work. Gail had a shop and she designed clothes. We can assume that her job was neither bad nor boring. When Will went to Australia, she decided to sell everything she had for going after him. Gail did it right, although her acts were not good, although she made a lot of mistakes trying to find Will, she did everything because of love, she loved her husband, her family and she did everything because of them. Doing everything for the ones who we love is the most beautiful thing that you can do, but we must be careful about how we perform our acts. I disagree with Gail’s acts, but I do not disagree with her acts.
If we cannot get a balance between work and family and we have to choose one of them, I advocate choosing family, since the family will give us love and protection and work cannot give us love or protection. If we lose our job we can find other, but if we lose our family it will be too hard to get other, or maybe it will be impossible.
