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"How would you spend your days differently if you didn't care so much about seeing your actions reach fruition?

All have the shining eyes of people who know they're doing things that matter, and who relish their work precisely because they don't need to try to convince themselves that their own contributions will prove decisive or reach fruition while they're still alive.

Yet there is a sense in which all work -including the work of parenting, community building and everything else- has this quality of not being completable within our own lifetimes.

All such activities always belong to a far bigger temporal context, with an ultimate value that will only be measurable long after we're gone.

And so it's worth asking: what actions -what acts of generousity or care for the world; what ambitious schemes or investment in the distant future- might it be meaningful to undertake today, if you could come to terms with never seeing the results?

We're all in the position of medieval stonemasons, adding a few more bricks to a cathedral whose completion we know we'll never see. The Cathedral's still worth building, all the same."

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