There is a definition of the term invest that refers to giving something into an endeavour with the expectation of having a return higher than what was originally given.
There is also another meaning of the term invest where someone is given a quality of some sort.
That leaves an intriguing thought to consider about life.
What if life is about beings given some qualities and there is a desire that those qualities are used in such a way that at the completion of life there is a higher return on what was originally given?
If we follow that line of thinking, maybe that will give an opportunity to see worth in ourselves as something not primarily about the promotion and preservation of the self. Maybe it’s about something more than that. Maybe it’s about discovering and utilising those qualities that have been given and then exercising those qualities for the benefit of others. And as those qualities benefit others, so there may be experienced an advance on those qualities and the development of other qualities.
In this line of thinking what we have isn’t ours. It is not ours because we didn’t grant it to ourselves. And it is not ours because it is not for us to hoard. We are recipients and an act of gratitude for what we receive is to give it for the benefit of others. As that takes place, so we’ll discover that we may continue to be in receipt of these good qualities from different experiences and encounters.
The pursuit is not about the accumulation of much, it is about the generous and constructive dispensing and dispersal of what ever we have.
Consider that about the business of life. It might something worth investing in.
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Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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