PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
"Whether you're a senator or stocking shelves in a warehouse, each of us has an important job to do, especially at a moment like this. The Stoics believed that each of us was important, that each person, focusing on what we can control, would be able to turn the tide of history when those individual efforts were combined in common cause. Marcus Aurelius wrote that even people asleep, even the shameless and the terrible, were part of the equation (even those incompetent leaders are helping to wake us up and remind people that we have to save ourselves). That's what sympatheia is really about—that we are this large whole, one that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Each of us, rich or poor, educated or not, is important. Each of us can make a difference: By keeping our families safe. By making smart decisions. By helping our neighbors. By voting. By keeping calm. By bringing our network to bear on problems. By sacrificing. By taking care of our health and listening to instructions. By delivering the mail, or treating patients, or investing in the market—whatever our job happens to be.
Do your job. Do it with courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom. Come together like a team, and we can get through this."
—from "Each of Us Has a Job to Do"
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