motivation and the brick oven

Is lack of motivation a symptom of the lack of a significantly motivatory goal? Are people lazy, unmotivated, or blind; I believe that people are scared, scared of the vast blank space opening up before them which is fogged by uncertainty, an uncertainty of fixed goals, fixed objectives, resting points on the road. Or is it a road? Perhaps if there were a road it would be so much easier; is this why people subscribe to the notion of a 'career'? The illusion that their experiences can be grouped within a field known as 'work', and organised logically, chronologically, and segmented according to whose bitch you were at the time. Why is it that we organise and categorise our lives around who we are subservient to? Childhood, to our parents; education, to the whims of our professors; working life, to a stream of managers; old age and senility, to the limits of our own faculties.

Consider the stone, the brick; a stone hewn out of the rough rock around it; rough tools attempt to shape it but they must work within the natural properties of the stone - this argument has been made many times; the brick may serve many purposes - an antiquated building destroyed in wartime, then picked from the rubble to rebuild again and again; does this stone consider its career? Does it plan which building it would like to be involved in next ? - 'Ah yes, observe that grand facade across the street, how I'd long to be a part of that - and at the top! Oh, if only to see further that I might find a yet higher and grander building on whose pinnacle I can rest myself'. How sad!