A Sign of Humanity (from FB note 01/26/2010)

Sometimes the most rewarding undertakings we as mere creatures can pursue are the ones with no clear outcome and we have but a glimmer of hope for victory. And we know deep in our hearts that we have naught but to fail. But the glory and the pride and the worth comes in the struggle itself, and to push to achieve the impossible which other mortal beings would quail and falter at, and to keep pushing on until at last you can not take another step and fall knowing you did your utmost for what you knew was right and just and good. That is perhaps the one true sign of real humanity. Because the true human does not do so for eternal salvation or rewards material or any other form of personal gain, but because we know at the deepest levels that it is the right thing to do.