Alex Writes For Coffee

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

The jobs that we praise the least are the ones that have the most impact on individual people, and the ones that we praise the most are the ones that have small impacts on large numbers of people. But I think that the work that we do to care for each other is the most vital and the most human work that we do. But figuring out how to internalize that in a world where maybe you are getting signals that maybe that isn’t the case is difficult.