Alexandria Griffith: outside reading

Currently I have been reading a book titled "why its OK to mind your own business." I started reading the book a few days ago and it has opened my eyes to a lot of different things. In the first chapter it touches on commencement speech morality and shares input on the different ways in which commencement speech morality is flawed. First, many people seem to forget the lessons/speeches brought forth to themselves fairly quickly. Many people within the world want to make big changes, and these speeches are impactful to many, but according to the book in very few situations do these speeches go on to encourage others to actually change the world. Commencement speech morality believes that "a morally good life is one of acting out your good intentions to make big changes in the world" (Tosi and Warmke 4). But, would that mean you are not living a morally good life if you are not making big changes to the world? Lets think of fufillment, individuals feel different sorts of fufillment in different ways and in different settings. One might feel a sense of fufillment from volunteering to help the homeless, whereas another invidual may feel that same sense of fufillment by spending time painting. Both individuals feel an overarching sense of fufillment from the tasks in which they are doing, but they are drastically different tasks and ways to spend ones time. But, does this mean that one is better than the other? Should we, as humans, feel morally obligated to devote our time to helping others? Or, should we spend time growing in our own ways? Such as growing within our works, better our skills (ex. cooking, painting, dance, ect). None of the things said above are morally wrong, but is there a path that holds more value? 

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