Doing good for goodness sake.

Providing essential services. Without a profit-motive. For instance, health care. For everyone. Merely because it’s the decent thing to do. For the benefit of society. For the common good.  I’m imagining such a society. Such a world. An advanced civilization. That has settled on eliminating monetary profit. For moral reasons. That it’s simply morally wrong. To reap profit. Instead, our work/endeavor should be to benefit mankind. Yes, for the benefit not of ourselves. Individually. But for the world, As a whole.  Health care corporations would be in business. Not for profit. But to provide the best possible care for the Alzheimer-riddled. Because it’s the right thing to do. The inventors of miracle drugs. They would not expect profit from what they do. Instead, they would enjoy having accomplished and performed a decent act. For the benefit of everyone. Imagine that. An unselfish society. I know. I know. That’s considered contrary to the essence of mankind. A world can’t operate that way. It’s impossible.  There is no such thing as true love.  Yet, I believe in true love. It exists.  Somewhere. In this cosmos. Consisting of billions of galaxies. Each with billions of suns. With billions of planetary systems.  Somewhere. Somewhere. The impossible has been achieved.  The very fact that I am an alive and conscious being. Able to imagine the impossible. The more I think of it. The more I believe. In the impossible. Yes, there even are people. Somewhere in the universe. That can walk on water. And do good. Without expecting monetary profit. Doing good. Merely for the sake of doing good. –Jim Broede