This is the Mission Statement for my work. It has been bandied about lately because I have sitting through more management type meetings. It is a nice thought but as I always do, I struggle with the details of it. I have no idea how to 'inspire quality lives'. I think that very few of my workmates even think about the whole thing. My problem is;
What is quality when it comes to some one's life?
How do I inspire that?
I think that quality is very dependent on your philosophy. My quality life, might be a damned life in someone else's eyes. Their quality life may be damned in my eyes. I can't help but think that quality itself is fraught. Fraught with identity. Fraught with misinformation. Can I not 'inspire a quality life' as easily by being good as by being bad. Inspiration comes as much from deciding not to be what you watch as it does from deciding to be what you watch.
I wish life was more black and white for me sometimes. I am sure that no one else even thinks about the Mission statement, let alone contemplates it. It seems such an easy statement, but I can see all these loopholes. I don't know. I can't judge someone else's life. I'll leave that to the priests and the fundamentalist Christians. I don't know if at the end of all of it, I will be judged. I know that my job is to judge my own life. I think that I am the only one on Earth qualified to do that. Oh that doesn't stop other people judging me, but I can't stop that either. Let them have fun with that. At least when judging yourself, you are uniquely suited. I know in myself what were the factors behind decisions.
I haven't changed anything or made any big decisions at the moment that I am dancing around. This night time contemplation is just about the Mission statement.
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