The "do something significant" bug

Just wassuped a friend. Her response was to say she didnt do anything significant the last week. She meant significant at work, but whatever. I dont get this line of thinking, this need to do something significant. We live, we think, we feel - thats significant. Everything else - the doing thing, the traveling thing, the picnic thing, the party thing - they are just add-ons to life. Not to say add-ons are bad. They are definitely good to have (sometimes:p) but they are still not central to life.

And I can never forget that one line a colleague once said when going on vacation - "I going to ski and I love it; and of course I love work but ski-ing would be nice for a few days." Why I cant forget it is the context - he was really excited to go ski-ing and he mentioned the "love work" thing then very honestly it struck me he actually (ACTUALLY) meant it. Of course why I cant forget it is coz I like my work but I'd always prefer not working to working. Work to me is a loss of independence and time, which is one hell of a sacrifice (independence being the only true value and time being the only scarce resource)

Or maybe I'm just weird. (yeah i know grrrr)