John-Roger, Peter McWilliams
Doing

People have one feature: we are beings who are constantly doing something. When we do not do something, we thought about doing that, of course, also is doing. When we sleep, we toss and turn and have dreams. We do exercise to keep our body in good shape, so we can do more.

People are perfectly "designed" for doing. Unlike trees, our bodies can move from place to place. Our emotions can change from happiness to sadness and back again in a few minutes. Our thoughts move us to places we could not get physically: our memory takes us back to the past, our intellect is able to anticipate future events and our imagination takes us to places we've never been.

We even try to do something with nature. For example, to change something in it in some places. We seem to have a tendency to reorganize the world. We invent tools to move that are not able to move his strength alone.

In the famous theater director Moss Hart was a country house.

Usually during visits there for the weekend, he asked his landscape designer put in one place a few trees in the other - to the stream and try to move the mountain a few hundred feet to the left. Author of plays by George S. Kaufman, who was in the house at Hart, said: "This is the way the Lord would have done if he had money."

It is often said that at a distance resemble human affairs fuss ants. We must ask the question: "what is the purpose of doing all this?" After all, we are not rocks, which do not seem to have much to create. We are endowed with the capacity to doing - but for what?

Of course, we have to work to meet their physical needs (which would not be so big if we worked less), but even after these needs are satisfied, we will continue to work. Why?

Our guess: Our doing allows us to learn more.

 

(To be continued)