Work, Passion and happiness

Sometimes I really think we spend a lot of time working, studying, preparing, sleeping and doing everything else but "living our lives".
I wonder whether I am living to work or working to live.....
I should be living and incidentally working.
Work becomes a passion, wanting to DO something becomes an obsession....
When I take a step back and look at it, I see the triviality of it....
More than all these things, did I have fun that minute, the previous minute or the minute before .....that must be the question I should be asking myself.
There is no point in living a life for a biographer.....
I realise that we have to live for our happiness....
But those moments of inspiration and clarity get clouded all the time.....
I hate it when people laugh and have fun and say that "they wiled away thier time"...
Come on...
those are the ones (myself inclusive..on many occassions) who are too scared to live....