9/11
Today we remember the more than 3000 Americans who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.
Do me a favor. Skip the television replays of the tragedy. The media’s primary interest is in ratings. And please ignore all the politicians who will spend this day taking credit and laying blame. Instead, remember that virtually every person who lost their life that day was in the midst of a simple act: They were working. The kitchen staff at the top of the World Trade Center, the flight attendants and pilots on the four planes, the stock brokers and secretaries in the various office buildings, the firefighters who rushed to Ground Zero in the hopes of rescuing others, all of them were simply doing their jobs.
It is all too easy to forget that we may be ennobled by our work—that what we choose to do for a living and how we choose to do it speaks volumes about who and what we are.
We honor best those who lost their lives five year ago today by going to work, just as they did that fateful morning. Make today one of your best work days ever. Work not only for yourself but for them. See your work as an adventure and commit to approaching it with the intensity described by the poet Tennyson, “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
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