Wondering if my body was really made for working. I used to get a terrible bad back a couple of years ago when I did a physical job and now, doing a job where I sit down all day, I am getting a bad back too. Perhaps my body just wasn't made for any kind of work.
The Ancient Greeks used to think that there were two levels of people in the world, defined by their physical attributes. Those who were made to do all the hard stuff like working in a physical setting, doing long hours and lifting stuff about, and those who sit around all day philosophising and thinking. Maybe they were right, and I'm the modern-day evidence?
It is of course worth pointing out that the people that decided on this arrangement were......the philosophers who sat about all day, and not the ones who it was decided should work hard all their lives. I've probably just got a bad back.
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