The status in society is not maintained by only doing things that you are passionate about.One of the characters in the film The Dig (which is based on the true story of the Sutton Hoo excavation) currently streaming on Netflix, is archaeologist Stuart Piggott, played by actor Ben Chaplin.īut what connection did the real-life Piggott have with Malta?Ī very interesting post on the National Museum of Archaeology (NMA), Malta’s Facebook Page speaks of a short stop by Piggott and scientist and archaeologist Glyn Daniel in Malta in 1943, en route from Cairo to Algiers, where the two “spent two ‘blissful’ days inspecting megalithic monuments and rock-cut tombs on the island, several spattered with bits of German and Italian aircraft” (Source: Roger Mercer, British Academy 1998). There are a lot of ifs and buts that need to be fulfilled before one can do what they are good at. A simple statement like, “follow your dreams”, is much more political and has loopholes than it seems. All these things do matter but precedence is always taken by other things. And it is then you realize the BIG LIE i.e follow your dreams, do something that you are good at, be passionate about your work, etc. They don’t have the means and resources to do so. Because of the absence of such material necessities they just can’t keep up with society. There is no incentive and there is negligible remuneration. I agree one hundred percent that the kind of adversities such people face, who just refuse to be a part of the rat race (even when it is more comfortable and flourishing), is beyond imagination. The Dig revolves around certain characters who are stubborn and adamant enough to do only what their calling is.
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