Hardwork or Heartwork?

Right from our childhood, we are all used to people saying, it takes hard work to get good grades, then a good college, secure a job, and the journey keeps going. We always keep running behind this "hard work" throughout.

The question that comes here to me: is the work we do really hard? Our goal is happiness, for us and our loved ones. And if we are happy doing it, how come is the work hard? To me, "hard work", is a subjective, overused and contextual term. The work is hard only when you are doing what you do not like to do. It is hard, when you have forced yourself into something you never had the desire of being in.

Now, consider a scenario, where you have a jar of candies kept at a distance from a kid who has just started to crawl. The joy those candies bring to the kid, will have him crawl over the distance, to grab those candies. Now, you are looking at him, his efforts to get that, will bring in your opinion that he did the hard work, to get to it. But, look at him, when he finally gets his candies in hand, and the smile on his face, do you still think he completed a hard work?

The beauty of our work and efforts, is retained when it comes as the "heart work" not the "hard work". We work for our happiness and happiness comes from our heart, so why did we let our work become so hard? Why not to let our efforts also feel that they are coming from heart and had not been hard to us, coz whatever the world thinks, it doesn't make sense to lie to ourselves, right?

Believe me, it is not the matter of two words, the huge difference there, is in the way we put our self into our work and our work into us, the hard way or the heart way. We all know, there is no life without work, so why shouldn’t we make it our life? Why don’t we grab a place and the opportunities to do the "heart work" and not the "hard work"?

What do you think??