Caring puts us on the hook and caring offers a chance to contribute. When we care, we get to make a difference, and that creates meaning, the path to significance.*
Seth Godin

We need myths that help us to realise the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as being sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world.**
Karen Armstrong

Caring about something is risky, we may be
disappointed or upset, we may
fail and look foolish, we may need to
commit more resources, time, energy, but
these same things mean that we’ve
found something that really matters, and
when it matters to others, too, then
we’ve found the mother-load of all
meaningfulness.

*Seth Godin’s blog: Who cares?;
**Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth.