Naming the Widget.

'All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.'

- Carl Jung.

The Widget can inspire rebellion. 

'My life is not just making Widgets'.   

'I'm a people person not a Widget person.'

'My work is not reducible to a Widget.'

'I don't like the idea of a Widget.'

'It's not that simple.'

Okay.

What is your life about then?

What does being a people person mean?

What is your work?

Why is it complicated?

Naming the Widget - the thing we serve eight hours a day, five days a week - may be confronting.

We awaken to how meaningful - or meaningless - our life is. 

Or we confront that we don't know what it is that we doing with our hours.

Or we respond with the not the Widgets.

We declare: 'That's not what I do, not who I am, not what I stand for.'

'That's not what I've sacrificed my hours, my dreams, my relationships, my time with my children, my integrity, my soul for.'

The Widget is a reference point that can tell us were we are - or where we're not.

It can have as much or as little value or connection to reality for us as time, a clock, a compass, a map, our age, our name, our job description, our boss's feedback, or the money in our bank.

Our reaction to the concept of a Widget can teach us.

Even its rejection announces:  We have a pulse!