"Always Go to the Funeral"
Feb. 2nd, 2009 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My dad sent me the link to this "This I Believe" essay, I like it enough to pass it on to you.
"Always go to the funeral" means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don't feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don't really have to and I definitely don't want to. I'm talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to the other guy . . . .
"Always go to the funeral" means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don't feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don't really have to and I definitely don't want to. I'm talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to the other guy . . . .
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Date: 2009-02-03 03:26 pm (UTC)When my sister died untimely young, the switchboard at the school where my mother taught was deluged with phone calls from substitute and retired teachers, all volunteering to work at the school so my mother's fellow teachers could attend the funeral. I'm tearing up right now thinking of how sophisticated their generosity was.