Valuable feedback from an esteemed reader:
The writing is clear and concise. There is much in this site that causes it
to rise above the average personal page. Musings about Bangladeshi workers
(or any other minority and their place in society, and recognizing the fact
that they are displaced and trying to survive in a technological society for
which they are ill prepared) is refreshing. Having worked with a mission
that helped such people, I know that the expert (but impoverished) stone
carvers, weavers, tailors, wood carvers and farmers are not equipped to
survive in a society that does not utilize the particular skills that they
do have...learned from their fathers in a caste system that fosters family
trades.
Your musings regarding one's place in life are refreshing.
I can tell you from experience, however, that the corporate suit and tie
that sometimes catches your imagination as the pinnacle of personal success
is not the real goal--or shouldn't be.
Having had scientific theory published in an Encyclopedia of Science, having
had an experiment chosen for research on the Hubble Spacecraft, and having
held a high position of power in a national organization, I can say (through
experience) that those ends are not what makes life satisfying.
Satisfaction only comes through the work and accomplishment that leads to the
goal, and in knowing that you have done something that is helpful to someone
else. Once you attain the goal, you will find empty space...you will have
to develop another goal with appropriate travail and learning to achieve.
While working toward your goals, do something positive for humanity (for an
individual or for the entire lot of us...it doesn't matter) along the way.
Follow your original thoughts of "seizing the day." When you accomplish
something that broadens your understanding or which helps even one person,
you have placed another strong thread in the tapestry of your life. When
you do something out of personal greed, pettiness, disrespect, or revenge,
you mar the fabric of your life. Your reputation is all that you can take
with you in the end.
If you are religious, and believe that one day each individual will have to
come to account for his life before God, then you realize even more that
only the things that are positive are worth something in the grand scheme of
things. Even if you are not religious, the same principle applies.
Your web pages offer sentiment, respect, remembrance, love and other ideals
of humanity. Your writing is excellent, and you may want to consider
working toward publication in some manner.
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