Dear Humans,

Here’s an important thing to remember: hard work pays off. Maybe not in ways you expect. And maybe not in ways you were promised. Life is not a child’s chore chart on the refrigerator. But if you work hard, good things will happen.

And they’ll usually happen while you’re working hard. While you’re engaged and focused and lost to a task is when you’ll feel most human. Everything else blocked out, all your petty problems forgotten (the big ones too), just doing something for the pure joy of doing it.

It might not be enough to fill up your bank account or park the car you want in front of the house you covet, but hard work is the key to something much more important: finding what your individual contribution to the world will be.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt