As promised, here are some wisdom nuggets from Jacob Lamoureux's commencement address on the topic of CARING.
Perhaps the most important power that lies within human beings is the ability to care, because what we care about controls what we do.
We don't even have to be good at something at first. We just have to care about getting good.
Caring is not just a fleeting desire; it is a lifestyle.
Indifference to what we become and what we do is a bad form of selfishness. We rob ourselves of our potential and others of the contributions we would have made to society if we had cared. We will not be significant if we only live to have fun. I challenge you to think of one great person in history who was lazy, passive, or undedicated.
Truly caring about something provides the motivation to beat laziness and indifference, so that we become skilled at what we are passionate about.
At the end of our lives, we are guilty of every problem that we were capable of solving, but did not solve.
There is no neutral profession. In fact, the job hardly matters at all. In any career, being a nice person is the best thing we can do, because we take our character with us to all aspects of life.
It's exciting and fulfilling to transform whatever talents and passions we have into a way to help people. It is my humble opinion that this is the purpose of life, and the purpose of life deserves every bit of care we can muster up from our souls!
Care is an action word! When we care about something, there is always something to show for it, whether it is the clean house we fixed up for Mom whom we care for or the bags under our eyes caused by studying for a class we care about.
