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by IkmoIkmo 3926 days ago
Yes for a normal hard working person, we're talking about Elizabeth who doesn't 'hang out' with anyone except her brother who is an employee of hers, chooses to wear turtlenecks everyday (she says she has over 150 turtlenecks and has worn them since she was 8, calls it her uniform, and they're all the same color of course, black, I'm not making this shit up) so there's no need to make any decisions in the morning, eats vegan so she can function on less sleep, had a solitary childhood. Nowhere does that appear she merely loves her work and does 'extra stuff' because it's 'unavoidable' and considers them 'secondary'. That's one thing. It looks like she doesn't do the extra stuff at all, purposely avoids them and that there's nothing secondary to work because it's all she lives for. She works 7 days a week and says she literally works from the moment she wakes up to the moment she goes to bed and designed her life so she doesn't have to dwell on 'extra stuff' like what to wear, and so she can sleep less, doesn't date at all and hasn't been on vacation in ten years, you really think there's nothing else to life than that? Ridiculous. That's totally different from your everyday 'I love my job, I work 80 hours a week with pleasure and have a family, go on vacation, do sports and meet new people for fun, go dancing etc besides work'. You're describing the latter in which case yes, it's completely fine to consider sports or hobbies as secondary to work if work is your nr 1 hobby, but for her there's no secondary. There's work and then there's sleep and that's it, and she's doing everything she can to reduce the latter and make more efficient the former, and no matter what you may say, she is totally missing out on a shit ton of things. Of course it's a personal choice and I'm in favour of her having the ability to make it, obviously. Life is a game of trade offs and the choices she makes are hers and I admire them a lot on some level, but let's not pretend there's no tradeoff here, life is clearly more than work, that's what Raverbashing said, you asked why, and I explained, it's as clear as day there's much more to life than the 7 day, 100% of her waking hours working work schedule, it's an objective fact you can't challenge.