Waiting for the Reward

Is virtue truly its own reward? Les Hughes devotes some thoughts to this question in his latest blog post. 

When we were kids my brother had a T-shirt that read “Virtue is it’s own punishment.”

I didn’t get the saying then, but now I know it’s a satirical slant on the saying, “Virtue is it’s own reward,” meaning that even if you aren’t rewarded for doing a good deed, the deed itself is reward enough.

Unfortunately, in the real world, virtuous actions and words are often ignored or even punished. It seems as if the unscrupulous are the ones who prosper.

Keep reading on LesHughes.com.