Chosen

It seems that people like being "chosen." I think of the TV show, "The Voice."  If you are chosen the winner, then comes money, fame, and attention.  You are no longer a nobody.  You are recognized.  Our escapist fantasy is to be "chosen."  But being chosen in a spiritual sense means that you have a responsibility.  It can be a burden to be chosen.  I think of those addicts for whom the desire to use/drink loses it power as they get into recovery.  They are supposed to pass on their experience, to mentor newcomers.  Only 10% seem to stay recovered, and one of the reasons is they take no responsibility to pass on their experience of recovery.  They stay self-focused and selfish.  The gift of finding a spiritual center, a power, a God within, is not meant to be hidden away in a cave.  The Way, the experience the wisdom is to be shared.  Those who "get it" in business are to mentor others.  The chosen have a job.  Success is not self-referential.  It is meant to develop a communal world.  It starts with one person.  That person may be you