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Pesident John F Kennedy once stated " Ask not what your country can do for you , but what can you do for your country " . I say to you now, ask not what this world can do for you , but what can you do for the betterment of mankind .
A young boy once witnessed his father throwing his grandfather out of their house because the grandfather had grown older and was unable to keep himself and his surroundings clean. Shaken as the child was , he could not deny the cruelty he had witnessed. Later on, the young boy met his grandfather wandering alone on the street. The grandfather asked the child to bring him a coat, so that at least he could avoid freezing in his homeless state. The child returned home and asked his father if he could have a coat for his grandfather.
" Go up to the attic ," said the father . " There is an old coat up there that he can have. When the child returned from the attic, he was holding half a coat. " What happened to the coat ?" the father asked. " Why has it been cut ?".
The young boy looked his father in the eye and replied " I did it for you" said the child, " so that when you grow old, you can have the other half. Teach acts of love and kindness and you will not have to worry about freezing, teach acts of cruelty and your actions might come full circle.
Over the margins of life comes a whisper, a faint call, a premonition of richer living, which we know we are passing by . Strained by the very pace of our daily outer burdens , we are further strained by an inward uneasiness, because we have hints that there is a way of life vastly richer and deeper than all this hurried existence , a life of unhurried serenity and peace and power
Thomas Kelly A Testament of Devotion
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