What people really want to do in life is to participate. People really
want their lives to matter, to make a difference.
Truly there is no answer for anyone who asks why people want to
participate. People want to participate because they want to
participate.
From within that tautology I see that in a very real sense we ARE
participation. What we need to do is to rehabilitate that essential
nature.
We want our participation to count. We want our lives to make a
difference. We want to be known as people whose word can be counted on
to the degree when if we say we are going to make something happen,
then you can bet everything you own that it will happen.
It makes no sense at all that we should be that way, and that is the
way we turn out to be.