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Originally Posted by SchoolisHard  Is it better to spend 30 years practicing music to make a few people who can afford tickets smile or spend that time on the ground, where you are needed most, helping bring in crops and re-building homes ravaged by natural disasters? |
That question seems to imply that your contribution of art to the world is worthless in comparison to your potential contribution of physical labor.
Or that you feeling good is not as important as other people feeling good. That joy in your life is not as important as the survival of a child on the other side of the planet. Who is to say where you are needed most? Who is to say that bringing in crops and rebuilding homes is more important than fighting fires or doing peace work or digging wells or or or or or.
Well, I think you know the answer to that question, "Who is to say?"
Don't you think that stoking your own well-being, creativity and joy is necessary food for you to be the best possible contributor of all the blessings you have to bestow upon the rest of us? You could be an ascetic, yes, and dedicate your enter life to the betterment of others, denying your own desires, but this tends to age people rather quickly. So that is depriving the world, too!
Fun, don't knock it.