{"id":3989,"date":"2013-09-04T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2013-09-04T13:12:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T17:12:20","slug":"to-invent-your-own-lifes-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/to-invent-your-own-lifes-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"To Invent Your Own Life&#8217;s Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Watterson, the author of the comic, <em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em>, gave a commencement address at Kenyon College in 1990. It was recently highlighted by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zachklein.com\/post\/59784738564\/excerpted-from-a-1990-bill-watterson-commencement\">Zach Klein in comic form<\/a>. Here is the same excerpt, as text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it&#8217;s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you&#8217;re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you&#8217;ll hear about them.<\/p>\n<p>To invent your own life&#8217;s meaning is not easy, but it&#8217;s still allowed, and I think you&#8217;ll be happier for the trouble.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Watterson, the author of the comic, Calvin and Hobbes, gave a commencement address at Kenyon College in 1990. It was recently highlighted by Zach Klein in comic form. Here is the same excerpt, as text: Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}