Wabi Sabi Work

Wabi Sabi words ...

Focused on nature, authentic, allowed to age, subtle, intuitive, personal, unique, now, whole, open, unresolved, appreciation, seasonal, flexible, ambiguous, tolerant, paradoxical, unrefined, elegant, fractal, organic, living, handmade, soft-edged, patina, stone, listening, seeing, receptive, slow, humble, plain, reflective, mindful, heart, warm.

What are these words?

Focused on technology, copied, eternal youth, bold, obvious, rational, impersonal, conformity, same, in the future, split into parts, closed, closure, depreciation, quarterly, intolerant, unambiguous, black and white, refined ornate, square and measured, geometric, artifact, mass-produced, hard=edged, plastic, steel, talk, show, arrogant, fast, proud, fancy unconscious, mindless, heartless, cold

In a balanced life, or in my balance for life, I am happier with the first list, but working life often brings me amongst the second lot. Can a philosophy or approach to working life based on the first collection survive and benefit those worlds of work dominated by the second? Or should I give up now and find a world of work that the first list describes?

What do you think?