Sunday, April 26, 2015

David Brooks: Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?




I just stumbled across this video, and it almost had me in tears.  Sometimes I feel a little sad and certainly a little crazy because I'm living differently from the people around me.  From the center of who I am I know that I am here to do good and be good.  I surrender to gain strength, and I'm living from my actual self.  The more I practice, the closer I get.
It's really hard to live from the center of ourselves when everything around us says we must live for success.  Sometimes living for that external success makes us cold and calculated, we give to get instead of give to give.  We must give without expectation, because from the center of ourselves we are here to do good.
I'm not saying that career is unimportant, because it is.  It is a big part of how we move along from day to day.  It provides us with the means to live but it does not define who we are.  I am grateful and blessed to do a job that I absolutely love and continues to thrill me each day.  But aside from being a costumer, I practice being a good human being. 
And through this life, let us be saved by hope, faith, love, and the ultimate love- forgiveness.

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