The Big Deal

I would hate to think that we do things because we feel bound by some "sense of duty"; that we feel we should do something because we "owe" it to someone. That would be finding the cure for cancer because you had "nothing better to do", not because it would save millions of lives. What is the point in doing something if it is merely some strand of conscience that tells us it's the "right" thing? Why should what we do be determined by something as unfeeling as whether it's "right" or "wrong"? What if what is "wrong" according to society is truly "right" as from God's point of view?

I just can't get past the fact that the only reason we do some things is because we feel some sense of duty to do it, that we owe someone something, therefore we will do something for them. Do something for them, that is, out of a desire to not owe them, to not have some duty to them. Shouldn't we do something for someone without a reason as shallow as that? Should it not be out of love, which is an action, not a feeling? Shouldn't service be done with no higher aim in mind, then to serve someone without something in return? Shouldn't what we give be without attached strings?

How easily I fail at the simplest of tasks. How selfish I am, daily.

What's the big deal?

~Fumble