By The term ‘worship’ originates from the old English word ‘woerthship’ meaning ‘giving back the worth’ or ‘reproclaiming the worth. Usually, the term worship is used in the context of religion or God (or by whatever name you address) and using worship in the true sense of the word seems rather pompous. So, perhaps, in the context of God, the definition of worship can be modified to be ‘realizing the true worthiness of God’. It is like a reminder not to God but to ourselves, that God is worthy.
Thus, in the context of when people quote their philosophy or principle of life as ‘Work is Worship’, they mean they keep reproclaiming that the work they do is worthy….worthy of their time or conscience or morals etc. However, in its true sense, is it really a rational principle that people can boast about it, that fables can be narrated about it?
This is actually a very poor and a third-grade principle that any person can adopt. This principle is like a weak table with extremely weak legs that constantly keeps shaking with the weight of the important things kept on it and is liable to fall at any point of time, thus, dropping everything that is worthwhile – the sweet, the sour, the salty, the tangy -everything.
Mathematically, let us quantify this:
Assuming a person lives for 80 years, the total number of hours he lives would be:
365 days x 80 years x 24 hours = 7,00,800 hours
Assuming a person works for 50 years (adding the years in studying) of his life for 8 hours for 300 days (subtracting the holidays or vacations), the total number of hours he works is = 300 days * 50 years * 8 hours = 1,20,000 hours
So, the percentage of life that your consider worship or WORTHY of living = 1,20,000/ 7,00,800 = 17 %
Thus, those who live and even die for the principle of work is worship consider only 17% of their lives worth living!! What about the remaining 83% of their lives – since it is not worthy- it deserves to be tossed into the bin.
Instead, a rather better principle and which is my principle is that ‘My LIFE is WORSHIP.’
Not just the 8 hours a day for 50 years, but ever every moment from the moment of my first breath is worthy – every moment is cherished by me. The Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent One has given be 100% of life to be cherished and I do consider each moment to be a blessing.
Yes, it is true that there will be moments with a taste of sadness or dullness or anger- but this too I cherish because I have been gifted a life that has made me capable of feeling all of it.
I consider every breath of mine to be worthy –
I – HEREBY- DECLARE – MYSELF – TO – BE – WORTHY.
