Doing Good

Everyone knows the grammatical rule that while you can be good, you cannot do good. I struggled in law school with deciding whether I would choose a career where I would be able to “do good.” The other day I saw a woman take two bananas out of her grocery bag and lay them beside a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk. And I thought to myself: why do I spend so much time worrying about my career, when I’m able to walk by homeless people day after day and never stop to give them food? Why do I think that my gesture of good must be so grand and so self-sacrificing? When did such a simple act of kindness become so foreign? From now on, I want to worry less about whether I am doing good and more about whether I am being good in all that I do.