Duty: A Lost Way Of LIfe

I have been contemplating the meaning of the word duty. You never hear this word anymore except in the concept of military service. Duty used to be a way of life. People had a duty to their marriages, their families, their state, their countries, their extended families and even a duty to their neighbors. People had a MORAL obligation to their commitments. The only duty I see anymore is one of self indulgent love of ones self. We don't know how to love someone simply out of duty not out of feeling. Our society says that if you aren't feeling it any more its time to move. There is nothing after it has left. Get a divorce, move out of one shack up into another and never mind any consequences for anyone else including the children you conceived. Its all about what you want. Employees do not have a duty to their employers and employers have not duty towards their employees. Parents can feel free to leave their children, to remarry and have other children.

Duty however, goes beyond feeling. It is the higher calling that says yes, things are bad right now and I am not feeling it but I am going to work on it and keep trying because I have a moral obligation, a duty that supersedes what I want for the good of many. People who understand duty are the people you see who have been married 50 years.