Do you have a good play ethic?

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No one ever seems to care about one's play ethic, only work ethic.

In a perfectly balanced universe, there is yin and there is yang.

I think a good play ethic is an essential part of a healthy being.

Are you a worker, a player, or a well balanced mixture?

I like to think I've got the two balanced.

My ethic is to work to live, but.......

I've been noted to get "unbalanced," and I've heard the word "obsessed" at times with whatever I do.

Once I get into something, I'm inertia'd into it, and it could be work or play. It's whatever my hyper focus is centered on at the time.

I remember as a teenager I would build model World WAR II airplanes, and this activity would cut into eating and sleeping. Once started there was not a break, and I could get snappy if someone disturbed me.

It's a strange phenomenon, as the "focus" saturates one's "soul," to where nothing can break through into myself to make another concurrent impression.

(This snappiness always bothered me, and I hold it back now, but it's still conveyed through body language and is readable.)

I alternate between a play ethic & a work ethic. I was working over 55hours a week when we were short-handed because of a sense of loyalty & working was kind of an escape from things; kept me active, out of the house & around others but I'm very lazy at home thou & i haven't worked in 3 & a half years

i play probably 'too much', if i don't take much of life seriously i can kinda feign happiness.. i will work & work my 'fingers to the bone' but only for something truly worthwhile.. the only real 'work' i've done is music, but then that's not really work is it? it's definitely worthwhile to me anyway.. & i volunteered for a music charity for a while, though that was annoying as, despite my young age (about 16-18 at the time, i think) i was noticeably more proficient than their one & only guitar tutor :/ in theory & practice.. he looked 'smart' ie well dressed tho
would've really liked to teach back then & i'd have happily volunteered all i could offer, whereas he got a salary nvm
i didn't stop because of that anyways, all the heavy lifting was done & they had little use for me. except i could've replaced that fool.. lol yea, i'm a little bitter. but not just for pride's sake, i'd have gladly devoted myself to this charity, helping 'disadvantaged' young people through music would've been right on many levels for me..
rant over/ you're all free to go

I balance (at least) three things - work, play and duty. Work is work. Play is wasting time in electronic anodyne; at the moment, modelling the city of Shibam in CM:SF so's I can virtually blow it to bits (world heritage site, huh? ^^ -actually it's a really interesting place, noticed it after a random search on Kowloon Walled City*) or reading other peoples' theological ramblings. Duty is doing the stuff I feel I should do, but don't particularly want to, and it involves a surprisingly large amount of stuff that should be play - for instance, forcing myself to read books and watch films. I lost interest in my watch-every-werewolf-film-ever-made project but not before buying half of them, meaning I've a big backlog of films to clear, and there's all sorts of educational stuff I do because I feel I should rather than because I enjoy it.

*as beloved of geeks and that cyberpunk dude.

I avoid work, then try to make up for it with some remarkably grim play, so I suppose there's some goofy balance in there somewhere.