Love and Work

What to Do

     What is there to do?  Survive?  Well, yeah.  Anything else?  Love?  Yes, love is extremely valuable.  What do we do after we’ve manifested love?  We work!

     Work!?

     Yes, the provision of service to an individual or community.

     Why the hell would anyone provide a service?

     We already know a great portion of the world finds negative, unhealthy, contractive ways to engage in the provision of service.  Such a sacrifice of positive values in order to provide a deceptive and dishonest service is antithetical to our dudes mission of being the example for positive, healthy, expansive relationships.

     The provision of service in a positive, healthy and expansive way is a shared, validative, supportive, exciting and stabilizing experience; and deepens the meaningfulness of existence.

     Service is not done in isolation.  Some amount of connection to another individual or community is necessary.  Due to this necessity, no one person can do much of anything without connecting in some way to someone.  The connection can be as distant as reading an article for knowledge to do something independently.

     Thus, the first greatest challenge to providing and receiving a service is discovering a shared connection of understanding.  A connection of understanding for positive, healthy, expansive relationships is made openly and honestly.  Whereas, connections made deceptively and dishonestly are indicators of negative, unhealthy, contractive values.

     After an understanding is made, validation begins.  Validation is incredibly important to achieve success of service.  Validation provides the confidence to make the attempt to achieve; thereby, empowering individuals and communities.  Without validation or self-validation, so long as the self is objective, how can we measure ability?

     Just as a teacher validates a student on a subject, the student validates the teacher’s ability to convey the subject; so, validation is also a mutual component to relationships of service.  If a participant refuses to validate something valid, a breakdown of understanding will transpire and the provision of service challenged.

     Progress of service does not happen on it’s own and often does not come easy or quickly.  Challenges will always present themselves.  Overcoming challenges to progress of service occurs within a community.  Thus most, if not all, of an individual’s challenges are solved by a community.

     What do you mean by progress of service?

     Progress of service means the advancement for well-being.  Many fields of service advance well-being, as advancement of well-being is the intention of service.  One example of service to advance well-being is maintenance.  Everything gets old and will need repair or replacement.  Only a community can deliver complete repair and replacement.  An individual can only do so much before having some need to connect to another individual for the fulfilment of that need.  Such a connection is community, however distant and impersonal that connection may be, the connection makes the community.

     So, the community supports individuals through their challenges.  The support available can be inspiring and exciting if connected to a positive, healthy and expansive community.  Oppositely, if a community is negative, unhealthy and contractive, then the individual and community will experience an expiring and dejecting existence.

     In a positive, healthy, and expansive community, the provision of service creates stability.  The stability created compounds upon itself through the positive, healthy and expansive values of self-control, gentleness, faithfulness, generosity, kindness, patience, peace, joy and love.  Any loss of stability is a direct result of a loss of these positive, healthy, expansive values from individuals comprising the community. 

     Ultimately, the provision of service in a positive, healthy, and expansive community deepens the meaningfulness of existence for individuals in the short period of time they are alive.  Connecting and consoling with one another to overcome challenges feels incredibly satisfying.  

     Love us and put us to work.  We love you and we have a challenge for you to solve with us.