( By Carrington Dillon )
I’d like to share something with all of you that I, for some reason, started thinking of the past couple of days. This short excerpt from an essay by Albert Einstein entitled “The World As I See It,” had a very profound effect on my life when I read the piece in college. Take from it what you may, but for some reason it struck a chord in me. And looking at it now, how ironic is it to come from someone who had such a profound impact on all of our American nuclear industry lives?
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…”
Thanks and Happy Independence Day, Albert.
