Gather and give, so you can give to teach by example. Your time is your life, so what better way to teach than to give your life away.
As we grow into our future self — who we want to be when we grow up — we have a choice to do with our time what we please. That is mostly true in a country like ours. In America, the “blessings of liberty” are such that if we work for others and earn the money for our keep, we can do with our time what we please.
By virtue of working for money, we are working for others. Our toil and trouble — as Adam Smith might say — results in the money which buys our freedom. This trade of our time — or rather a part of our life — results in the freedom we deem so dear to us.
Living is more than just working. True living cannot happen unless it is for others. Though true that one may work for others and live, they are not truly living if their life is always in toil.
