2019 - Day 84/281 - Monday...Cupidity...

I attended a dinner this evening, and this is what I look like when EVERYONE at my table gets up at the same time and calls a ride-share to take them back to the hotel. Without me...if there something I am missing there?

So...this was a long and rewarding day, although, what days do not have their ups and downs. There were successes and there were a couple disappointments, but overall, the successes were much more rewarding and memorable than the disappointments. Generally, if I am given a task, I an a freight train and do not stop until the task has been completed. There are occasional issues with that tenacity, and that is okay. If you want the task completed, just give me the task. And then please stand back. A group I was associating myself with today put a lot of effort into doing something good for folks who are less fortunate than many of us. The experience was really a rewarding one, even though that enthusiasm was not shared by all, and in particular, those who were more interested in judging than in participating. Whatever. What I know is, the beneficiary of these efforts was happy with the end result of our efforts, and that is all that is important.

Cupidity -- Noun. 1. inordinate desire for wealth. avarice, greed. 2. strong desire. lust. Mr. Henderson's cupidity got the best of him; he over-invested his assets in a few risky stocks and lost his fortune when the market crashed.

Did You Know? From its verb cupere ("to desire"), Latin derived three nouns that have passed with minimal modification into English. Cupiditas meant "yearning" and "desire"; English borrowed this as cupidity, which in the 15th century was synonymous with "lust." (The "greed" meaning of cupidity developed very soon after this now-archaic meaning.) The Latin cupido started out as a near synonym of cupiditas, but it came to stand for the personification of specifically carnal desire, the counterpart of Greek eros; this is the source of our familiar (and rather domesticated) Cupid. A strengthened form of cupere - concupiscere, meaning "to desire ardently" - yielded the noun concupiscence, meaning "sexual desire."