Let’s make it work!

I start this post with a renowned phrase out Tim Gunn's book. "Let's make it work". It's what he would say to the designers of Project Runway every time the pieces shown to him weren't adding up. But...Is this phrase applicable in life as well? Do we have to make it work? Have to? When life is being her usual bitch, do we have to smile 24/7 until the fucked up inside matches to perfection the smiley outside? Just because people around us can't handle to see us "sad". Because weaknesses are not acceptable in a society that measures your capacity based on productivity…and when we are sad we produce less, is that it?
Yes, as a matter of fact I am familiar with the theory behind it…the dissonance theory and all that. But I ask this, is that all there is to it? Make it work? For whose benefit? Why are we so afraid of feeling, particularly those feelings that are not automatically related to pleasure? It may sound cliché, trust me I know, but pain and heartbreak can be good for you. How are you to know when you have a good thing if there's nothing to compare it to? Sometimes the best part is the fall. The adrenaline of not knowing. What is so petrifying about silences and…leisure time? If you don't get what I mean, just look around you…how people tap their foot anxiously, do three things at once or how when you ask a friend the inconsequential: "how're you doing?" you just keep walking because you aren't actually waiting for an answer. In point of fact answering is considered downright rude. The new thing is texting…because we don't even have time to speak. We are busy at keeping busy. We are too busy to feel, to think, to live…so we have to make it work. And that ought to be enough.

But I ask myself…is it surviving enough? It's just enough what I seek?

I think not...thank you very much!