FRIDAY'S LABOR FOLKLORE

7.8.11

My Life Belongs to the Community

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it what I can.   I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live.  I rejoice in Life for its own sake.  Life is no brief candle for me.  It is sort of a splendid torch which I've got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

-George Bernard Shaw in Coming of Age by Studs Terkel