- Author: Deirdre Sullivan
- Full Title: Always Go to the Funeral
- Type:
- Tags: #favorite #humans
- URL: https://www.npr.org/2005/08/08/4785079/always-go-to-the-funeral
Highlights
- "Always go to the funeral" means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don't feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don't really have to and I definitely don't want to. I'm talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to the other guy. (View Highlight)
- In going to funerals, I've come to believe that while I wait to make a grand heroic gesture, I should just stick to the small inconveniences that let me share in life's inevitable, occasional calamity. (View Highlight)