“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
- Colonel David Hackworth
The root of the word duty can either be translated as “that which is owing” or “debt”. Duty is the responsibility we have to someone or something. We are to give what is rightfully theirs.
Duty is a necessary obligation. Everyone has one. Husbands are to lead, serve, protect, and provide for their wives. Mothers are to nurture and train up their children. Employees are to give honest, diligent work. Employers are to be fair and reward good work. The world functions best when people are first concerned with giving what is owed to someone else and not with what is owed to themselves.
Duty is resilient. It survives life-crushing hardship whether it be the loss of a job, a wife, a child, or you have cancer. Duty still remains.
It is not enticed by money, women, comfort, or ease. Duty still remains, waiting to be fulfilled, not dependent upon any one person because it knows how devastating or tempting those things may be. It waits for those who are as resilient as it is.
Duty still remains when you are not best prepared. Duty still remains when you have tried your best and fail. The kids still have to be fed when you go out and can’t find a job. The family has to be protected when there is a break-in at midnight and you’re tired. Even if you hide, duty doesn’t go away. You may be shaking in your boots, but must you saddle up anyway.
Through the shifting and shaking of life’s vapors, duty remains; when things seem all too hard to have a handle. But those who take up duty and responsibility find themselves rewarded in the undertaking. Duty comforts and rewards the brave in the act of taking it upon their shoulders; an internal peace, seldom met with external results. Responsibility respects those who take its reins made of wind and ride it towards the enemy. What the brave soon realize is that it is good to carry the flag forward, not for the outcome, but for its own sake of carrying it forward.
Do what you must do.
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