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Work hard, Play hard, or....

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Play.  Play versus not knowing any better- what is play to a kid, learning, stimulation? What is work to an adult? Work is stimulating, well, ideal work would be stimulating anyway. People are going to school for? The act of learning? Expectation to receive a degree? To eventually get a job in a career field they enjoy? I think the latter is the correct sounding one, however immediately following high school one does not necessarily choose to continue school and pay for it unless there is some bigger reason behind it. I do believe that some people at 18 or 19 would choose to continue schooling and I also believe those people are the same driven to work in a highly refined field, doctors, engineers, mathematicians. Why? Is school work now play to them? Are they so stimulated by what knowledge provides that it has now transitioned from work as one person might see it to play as they see it? After all, wouldn't the definition of either work or play, which are typically represente...