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Responding to twains assertion
The values of work and play can affect our lives. There comes a time in everybody's life where they need to start working. Some responsibilities you get from work are a work ethic, and pay along with many others. You learn to value play more after you have worked for it. On the other hand for play, you learn to be yourself and develop people skills easier. This can help you at any time in your life.
“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.” - Mark Twain
I agree with the quote from Mark Twain, simply because things that are work to some people are play to others and vice versa. With a good enough outlook and attitude, you can turn something that is work into play. If you lack experience, play can become work
Blurring the Line
The line between work and play can easily be blurred through professional sports, but another interesting blur of that line in my opinion would be cartoonists/illustrators. When I say this I think of the little commercials I used to see on Nickelodeon when I was little; this man would introduce himself as the co-creator of Spongebob and then proceed to show the viewer how to draw Spongebob. Getting paid to draw cartoons for television shows is something I see as play, but I can imagine deadlines that must be met, which is also work, and in my opinion, blurring the line between the two.
Work and Play
Usually there is a broad line between work and play. Work sucks most of the time and play is pretty enjoyable. This line can be blurred in the case of a professional athlete. Most athletes grew up loving the sports that they played. When they go pro, they automatically make around 300,000 dollars a year. I would go berserk if someone told me they would pay me that much money to do the thing that I loved more than anything. It is very hard work to become a professional athlete. You cannot get by with only talent. I am sure 99% of professional athletes would agree that the work is totally worth the pay and the excitement of playing the sport they love.
work and play
The line between work and play can be blurred easily for an actor. I would assume most actors and actresses start off in things like school plays or performances. But when they get a part in a movie they may have to play a character they don't like for any reason. This can blur the lines of work and play and that's why some actors or actresses turn down parts for movies if that's not what they want to do.
While avoiding a scientific/chemical definition of what fun is, what fun is to me is the raw application of my brain, feelings of in the moment pure experience, and physical reward in different combinations. Games that are fun to me are ones that can distract me from the real world, without boring me, and possibly while providing reward. This is why I like looking though my microscope. You are forced to bring your attention and focus to a pinpoint, which can distract you from all the terrible of the world, and allows you to set up small goals, succeed and then get rewards. I want to focus my eyes, because I want the mental reward of being a scientifically involved individual and of knowing what the microscopic world looks like, and in the moment of looking only at a microscopic cross section of onion I can discover tangible feelings of success and satisfaction that are worth coming back to. I get similar feelings when reading, or getting lost in the plot of a film, and those give me similar rewards of feeling more cultured or more informed than I was before starting. Spending time at my job, deeply entrenched in studying, and physical labor provide the exact same feelings. Chopping wood provides in the moment feelings of distraction, feelings of pure focus and zen, feelings of reward( adrenaline/epinephrine plus the fact that I now have burnable wood) , which are all feelings I associate with fun. So yes, I would agree with the assertion made by Mark Twain, that work and play are indeed the same energy/power/thing in different contexts. ( *note, the feelings and mental processes involved in “finding the zen” of an activity is hard to explain, and I would claim it is even undoable with human language. These ideas and feelings are very abstract, and I didn’t put enough in to really describe them to a reader, so I apologize).
Work and Play
Work/Play “Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under different conditions.” -Mark Twain Twain’s assertion is correct. When someone is at play they are doing it purely for enjoyment. When a person has a job they work for pay. Just because you are getting paid to do something, however, doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. When you get paid to do something you are expected to do a job well, like play, if done well you get what you put in. Twain's scenario works for anyone who loves their job.
Work and play
Work and play can be adjectives used to describe one particular situation. If you are given a task to do you can either decide to work hard and stay focused on it or you can choose to play around and not get any work done. The same goes with school homework. Mark Twain is right when he chooses to compare the two in his quote because they are related
