Willful Creatures- Job's Jobs
This story by Aime Bender was very interesting to me. A writer who loves his profession is visited by God and demanded to never write again or else he would be killed. He does this and takes up art and falls in love with that, God once again visits him and threatens him to give up the job. This cycle repeats itself many times, and each time the man finds a new passion and has it taken away from him. At the closing of the story, the man is not able to converse with anyone, and is secluded in a small room with only his thoughts to accompany him. At this point, the man cannot find anything else to make him happy because everything he could possibly enjoy had been taken away from him.
I believe there is a very important lesson in this story. Although it seems as though God is punishing this man, in reality he is helping him (until the very end of the story). Had God not prohibited this man to do these things, he would have never discovered any of his other passions. Had he not prohibited him to be a writer, he would have never picked up acting and fell in love with it. The lesson in this story is to expand your horizons and to try new things, because you may discover things about yourself that you never knew. By going out of your comfort zone, you learn about yourself as a person.
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