Who does not know the scene from the movie "AdventuresShurika ", where the foreman-chatterbox, lying on the straw, exhorts the burglar, sentenced to 15 days, to work?
Labor ennobles
В этом едины все науки - естественные, humanitarian and public. Even if we discard Darwin’s dubious theory (the author himself doubted it) that allegedly labor had turned the monkey into a man, then an equally significant fact remains: the worker is further from stupidity than a bum. On this occasion, the people put down the saying: “The drones are a lot of miserly”.
Do not identify work only with heavyphysical labor: after all, it can be expressed both in intellectual efforts, and in the movements of the soul, and in inventions. Wherever you look - everywhere human labor is applied, whether it be transport, houses or baked bread, books or wells, beautiful dresses and painted crockery, medicines and prams for babies. In the absence of labor, would such convenient and useful things appear?
Without human effort there would be no running water,electricity, phones, computers, airplanes, and much more. Everything in the world, excluding Mother Nature, is the result of human labor.
Why is people so honored by labor?
So the person is arranged, that one of his baseneeds is self-realization, creativity. This discovery was made by the famous American psychologist Abraham Maslow: his hierarchy of needs has been successfully used to this day.
Work is always creation, creativity:he raises a person to the next step, reveals his resources, gives a sense of his own need and importance. The common expression “to realize oneself” means to open one’s potential, to work hard.
Последнее время из-за растущего трудоголизма, loads and stresses in megacities the word "work" is increasingly acquiring a negative connotation of "slavery." There is also a version of the more ancient origin of this word, which, alas, is denied by the "grandfathers" from the science of linguistics: people's memory perceives work as RA - a particle of God (joy, joy, radiance). Bright and clean words! Probably, the word “work” once had the same meaning, until it fell under the millstones of a consumer society.
In the wisdom of the people, this original meaning of the word “work”, identical to creativity, was impressed.
Proverbs and sayings about work
Attitude to work is similar among all peoples of the Earth; there is hardly any ethnic group that would negatively relate to work: even nomadic Roma work, although they understand this duty somewhat specific.
In different national traditions there are various proverbs about work:
- Without labor and a hare not to catch.
- The lazy man is worse stuffed: it scares the beasts though.
- Quick work, but with flaws.
- Reaping sickle is always brilliant.
- Do something else as your own.
- A bird will be recognized in flight, and a person will be recognized at work.
It is obvious that the most diverse nations have similar ideas about hard work, which resulted in proverbs about work.
Russian proverbs about work
A considerable layer of Slavic folk wisdom consists of proverbs and sayings about work:
- No business to live - just smoke the sky.
- Want to eat rolls, do not sit on the stove.
- Finished it - walk boldly.
- Life is measured not by years, but by works.
- The case of the master is afraid.
- Man's work feeds, and laziness spoils.
Proverbs about work and work do not cause doubts about how people treated hardworking people. However, you will not hide another layer of proverbs, which shows the flip side of the coin.
"Work is not a wolf"
"This is not necessary," added the notorious embarrassedforeman Indeed, the saying “Work is not a wolf — it won't run away into the woods” voices a very different point of view on work. Most likely, the proverbs about labor reflected the real state of affairs, and after all at all times there were workaholics who were too enthusiastic about work. They spoiled life for themselves and others. There were idlers and parasites, over whom popular rumor, through proverbs, laughed and teased.
А ещё в нашей истории "случился" отнюдь не самый The meritorious period of feudalism, when the serfs "plowed" someone else's cornfield, often contrary to their own talents. What is the pleasure of working here? So these contradictory proverbs were born! However, if you use them wisely, then today they will benefit everyone. The main thing in labor is to follow the rule of the "golden mean".
Here are some folk sayings that temper the ardor of the worker and, as it were, prompt him that the time has come to take a rest, work on himself, silently think, take some time for his close people.
- Take in the work of the mind, not a hump.
- The work of fools loves.
- Interfere with idleness - you will live a century with fun.
- God sent the work, but he took the devil away the hunt.
- All cases can not be undone.
So the people were very observant, and in their proverbs laid down those rules, without which the person simply loses human appearance.
