Tomorrow I'm trecking up the M25 to join the East2West Staff day in Staines (iiiieeee!). The theme of the day is commitment and as I'm leading it through the topic has been tickling my grey matter for the last few weeks. I have come to a thought: instant gratification is cancer to commitment. If we're focused on feeling good now, how can we make sacrifices for the ultimate rightness and happiness of the future...
Two quotes have stuck with me:
"Soon will come a time when we will have to choose between what is right and what is easy"
Professor Dumbledore
"Commitment - An engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action."
The Oxford English Dictionary
Why would you choose to restrict your own freedom? What motivates that? xc