I saw people helping people, recently, right around home. It was in their job description… helping others. But it was more than that. Because they were so good at what they were doing, from what I could tell. It was more than simply doing their job.
That got me thinking about ‘souls.’ Or, as Plato, eons ago, believed about something so amorphous, as a person’s soul… that it involved a “spiritual ‘breath’ that animates.” As well as “the essence of a person…that which decides how we behave,” I learned, in Wikipedia.
And that got me thinking about people, overall. Across the board. All around.
The people helping people, I happened to see, were of various ethnicities, various races, various ranges of skin tone. A diverse group, they were.
Plato might have thought highly of such souls.
And that got me thinking about souls, in general. About the essence, and spiritual, animating breath, associated with peoples’ souls.
I began visualizing, in my mind, all sorts of people. Politicians, of course, especially some who are almost endlessly in the news. You’re on your computer or your phone, you open your newspaper, or turn on your TV or radio, and there they are.
And I was visualizing your town and county officials, I’ve seen pictured in Daily Post articles, when they’re in meetings, discussing things.
And world leaders, some of whom are in the news, almost as endlessly, as some of our nation’s officials, especially that one official of ours, here in America, who’s actually a former official, now.
Comparing souls… that’s what I’ve been doing. The various politicians’ and world leaders’ souls to the souls of the people I saw helping people, just recently.
Comparing that “spiritual ‘breath’ that animates” souls, that I read about in Wikipedia. Comparing the essence of people… and “that which decides how (they all) behave.”
That can be so very, damned interesting!
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.