the usual thing vs the best thing
Tugged we each are between doing the usual thing—say earning a living—and doing your best thing. More sharply: doing your calling which means relying on others (family, tribe, nation?) to pick up your slack when you fail and being the one to pick up others when they fail. This is the prodigal father again, yes? The stay at the grindstone brother angry that he has to support the one who set out in the world and fell flat on his face: faced by the progenitor who loved them both with his all.
:- Doug.
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