"A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others." - Marcus Aurelius
Like many others, I find myself working on Christmas Eve. I don't mind working on a high holiday, because what I do matters to society. I play a minor part in supplying electricity to people's homes, to hospitals, to traffic signals and municipal waste treatment plants, etc. Likewise first responders, hospital staff and care facilities that attend to the lives of the sick and elderly - those are important things too.
So with that in mind, I'm OK foregoing spending the day with those I love, and instead spending it somewhere I'd rather not be.
