I can relate

I found this image online.

I completely relate to these long-gone scribes. I am not a professional scribe/illuminator: I can stop any time I want.... 

That's not a cry for help or an intervention, I mean that literally: I can stop working on scrolls anytime I want and do anything else. Play a video game; go eat food; run an errand; hang our with friends. I can only imagine working day after day, from sun up to sun down, hunched over parchment drawing and painting page after page.

So, my fellow scribes, raise a glass for our scribal ancestors and rejoice in the fact that we do it for fun.