My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Obligation
Obligation is the more essential motivation and without this sense of what is owed he might do nothing at all. It is when there are conflicting obligations that it becomes uncomfortable, since meeting one means the other is left owing. It is then he seems to tear.
Labels:
action,
conflict,
essence,
motivation,
obligation
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