We all crave or want to be part of a team and contribute. Have our skills or something we’ve done respected, acknowledged, and appreciated. Then there’s doing things like serving your country. This must be the epitome of being part of a team. What I was interested in is how it’s so important to have something you do receive some applause. This could just be a simple thanks or money.
But, we work to earn money and live, yes, of course, but we work to receive thanks and respect. A homeless person needs food and shelter but they also need something to do. A place to start off and then build up to something they can gain and receive respect for. How can I jump from serving in Iraq to a homeless person? Along with this idea of having something to do that gives you a feeling of pride, is having a place to go where you feel comfortable, part of a team, where a space where you can create or do something that earns respect–write, create art, music and so on.
Many soldiers come back and then return back to the war they were just fighting in. Amazingly, they don’t want to leave their friends and other soldiers. I think this is related to doing something we’re afraid of, and once we do it, we feel proud and happy that we did it. Maybe it’s finding something to do that challenges us on a regular basis. I always think of doctors, and their immediate impact on others. When someone is sick they are desperate for help, and may die if they don’t get it. I guess what I’m getting at is how do we find that something we like to do that receives applause, helps others and therefore makes us feel better, and also challenges us. I think I could link back to a few other posts that take about his, finding your passion and the viral articles that move people.
Then there’s fame and how that can destroy people in a way or overwhelm them. But is the greatest feeling proportional to the number of people you can effect or move. I’m rambling on and straying to a number of different things but I think that something can be said about doing a lot of different things, learning more in general, and then also having a passion or something your obsessed with and do that.