“The fruits of labor”, feels like the saying has been around forever, an easy reminder of what your reward will be for continued hard work. It’s one thing to think about the accolades, the spoils, or the fruits, it is another entirely different...

“The fruits of labor”, feels like the saying has been around forever, an easy reminder of what your reward will be for continued hard work. It’s one thing to think about the accolades, the spoils, or the fruits, it is another entirely different story to put in the labor necessary to receive that fruit, and then sometimes even still it doesn’t always work out how you planned it. The important part of work, especially as we are young and impatient, can always seem like the finish line, the glory at the end, but the joy lies in the labor that fills the majority of the time spent working towards the fruit.    It is easy to become jaded about our daily work, it can seem repetitive, even monotonous at times. We often lose sight of the end goal or the reason why our work today matters to the end goal we are trying to achieve. We live in a world of why’s. Why am I doing this? Why does this matter? Why am I here? Work will consume on average about half of your life, the next time you feel work losing it’s meaning make sure you rethink why today’s work is important to achieving something bigger than oneself.    In the grand scheme of thing there will always be a bigger picture no matter how important the minor details may be. A bad day, here and there as well as the general adversity that comes with a life full of worth is a small piece inside an otherwise beautiful picture. It can be hard to see it now, just like a puzzle when you first start. It just looks like little pieces, some easier to see where they fit than others. Without a general idea of the end result on the box it can be nearly impossible where to start. Imagine what that general big picture idea is and get to fitting those puzzle pieces together…you never know it might just be a picture of a bowl of fruit.

Fruits of Labor