Here’s a piece of a piece at American Thinker:
| We can replace almost anything in our lives — human organs, currency and credit, electronic records and documents – but ultimately these things do not define life.
What matters in life is the yearning of the human spirit for goodness and truth and the courage and grit to make that yearning into deeds and words that matter. Men who personify these values, unlike hearts and dollars, are irreplaceable. It is not they who have died: They are immortal. It is rather us who die each time one of these rare few leave this world. We have forgotten, in our busy rush to nowhere, how to replace the irreplaceable. |
If they don’t make them like they used to, why not?
And who will?
Next, personalize the matter: “Am I rare or run-of-the-mill? Would I be placed in the irreplaceable category?”
How would you go about replacing the “irreplaceable”?