I am sorry for your loss. A whole generation is passing away, and with them their set of rules to live by, regardless of how useful they were. We are now inventing new rules to fill that void, but none seem to matter as much as doing our job with integrity. Thank you for this beautiful meditation.
"There's something to be said for taking care of the little things that are within your sphere, day in and day out, of finding the gaps and filling them, thereby making the world an incrementally better place. Just doing your business consistently, correctly, for the sake of it, without seeking reward or applause, as these two men did. Competence."
This is a very useful approach. I sometimes think of it as just do your job, do your job very well and ethically. If we all did that... who knows. The world's too complex for each of us to master much more than that.
I am sorry for your loss. A whole generation is passing away, and with them their set of rules to live by, regardless of how useful they were. We are now inventing new rules to fill that void, but none seem to matter as much as doing our job with integrity. Thank you for this beautiful meditation.
Integrity. Yes! Great word. I wish I would have used it.
"There's something to be said for taking care of the little things that are within your sphere, day in and day out, of finding the gaps and filling them, thereby making the world an incrementally better place. Just doing your business consistently, correctly, for the sake of it, without seeking reward or applause, as these two men did. Competence."
This is a very useful approach. I sometimes think of it as just do your job, do your job very well and ethically. If we all did that... who knows. The world's too complex for each of us to master much more than that.
Ethically. Yes. Another good word.
The Illiad is about a funeral. Troy is just Homer's setting and Priam in Achilles's tent is the centerpiece of the work.