Business is like a drug. In America, for instance, we wear being overworked and under-rested like a badge of honor. The more we DO, the better you and I are. Culturally we think our jobs define us. All we have to do is think about what we usually ask someone when we meet her or him … “What do you DO?” Now, don’t get me wrong, jobs, working as a mom or dad, and the things we do ARE important and valuable, AND I don’t think they should define us.
Consider these thoughts from pastor Jonathan Storment. He says he’ll “often ask [his] friends, ‘What did your great-grandfather do for a living? If you don’t know the answer to that, chances are neither will your great grandkids.'” A here point is, for good reason most of us have NO CLUE what our distant relatives did for a living. Why? Because jobs and such don’t matter as much as our culture says they do. I think we should all do what we do well … WITHOUT letting it define us. Instead, I think we can put more emphasis on what makes more of a difference … BEING. After all, we’re not human DOINGS, we’re human BEINGS.
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