Fulfilling my daily obligation of blogging for over thirteen years, I’m pretty sure I’ve written about obligations before.
Now I feel an obligation to check that out.
Yes! Here is a previous post on obligations, from my third year of blogging.
I feel an obligation to tell you to click on the link in the paragraph above if you want to access that blog post, which highlights a group therapy session. Another obligation I just fulfilled was checking my math to make sure that the post was really from my third year of blogging.
Obligations that take a moment to fulfill are very different than those that take hours. And because I’m very aware of my own mortality, I often consider getting out of those more time-consuming obligations. My sense of obligation is so strong, though, that I spend a lot of time going back on forth about what to do about those obligations.
What’s an obligated person to do? Happily fulfill my obligation of sharing today’s images.
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Here’s an obligation I am honored to fulfill today — sharing this appearance of Dr. Martin Luther King on Meet the Press in 1965, which includes a discussion of moral obligations.
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There is no obligation to comment on this blog post, but I hope you do.
Thanks to all who are here for this obligations post, including YOU!
