I talked to an exhausted friend yesterday. I was exhausted too.
It helped considerably to speak with him.
Beyond his usual sage advice and generous ear, what choice was there except to try to be a force of uplift for him too?
It is one of those life cliches that somehow gets lost in the constant of achievement and goals and daily doings: There is nothing so selfish you can do as help someone else.
Imagine, to return to a subject that obsesses me, if schools were built on such cliches rather than on learning and achievement? What would a curriculum of giving and helping look like, a pedagogy designed to lift others rather than oneself?