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You Don’t Get Points for Doing the Right Thing
But some of us do it anyway
There are all sorts of awards connected to being voted MVP in professional sports — fame, promotional contracts, GOAT status, being remembered in history.
But there is no outward reward that goes along with being an MVP in life, for being someone who makes contributions to the world by doing the right thing.
The MVP in life knows the internal reward, the peace of knowing you did the best you could, and maybe you actually made a positive difference in the life of another.
But, that’s not the ‘Murican way. True ‘Muricans believe in wealth and fame, damn the snowflakes and the do-gooders, they’re saps. Sending personal rockets to space while billions starve, raking in gazillions in profits while the poor suffer without vaccines; the billionaires doing these things are lauded on the nightly news.
Meanwhile, the MVP in life — the whistleblower, the union organizer, the environmentalist –is often punished.
You don’t get points for doing the right thing. The MVP in life is often ridiculed, trolled, stalked or even killed.
Most people don’t speak up out of fear. How to we face this fear? How do we keep ourselves on a path of doing the right thing? How do we teach our children…
