Three Hard Steps of Worth are:
1) Getting started;
2) Maintaining a momentum;
3) Maintaining momentum till death.
Must the author explain; or, is the understanding self-evident?
Let’s say, brushing one’s teeth and not eating teeth-rottening slop is a worthy thing to get started, maintain and continue to maintain till death. Thus someone who has never started, likely never learned the worth of brushing their teeth. The subject must have both the courage to try the technique and the humility to consider the thought of brushing their teeth. Getting started requires a Promethean event!
The next hard step, once our one has learned the thought and technique of teeth brushing, is to continue the practice. Who will remind our one to brush their teeth? Who will know how their teeth are doing? Maintaining the practice is thus the second hardest step of worth.
Let’s say, our one committed to brushing their teeth and maintained their teeth well into mid-life. Then, a crisis occurred and our one no longer cared to check how their teeth were doing. Nor did they care for anyone to remind them to brush their teeth. Our one gave-up the worthy thing to do. Depending on how long our one went without brushing their teeth will determine the worth lost.
So, for our one, they return to the first hard step, just getting started.
Sadly, some people never leave the first step. Either, too timid to begin or too limited in available thought through their nature and nurture. Simply getting started isn’t always so simple.
Probably the greatest challenge to beginning something of worth is discerning what is worthy to start, maintain and continually maintain till death. Sometimes a person will need to commit to maintain a thing of perceived worth simply to discover if the thing is worthy for them. If not, they are back at the first step.
There are also others who are courageous to try something of perceived worth; only to not have the determination to commit to maintaining a momentum. For them simply finding a determination and perseverance to maintain a momentum on something perceived as worthy is their second hard step.
The last step is the hardest of them all. Is the thing of worth so worthy as to maintain the thing all the way through your final exhale? Time ages us. Slows us down. Recoveries take longer.
Go on, find something of worth to get started, maintain, and continue maintaining for life!
