He was a young driver, just out on his second job. And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits for everyone in that coal-scarred city where children play without despair in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day about thirty thousand pounds of bananas...
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A young driver delivers fruit to a city where children play in industrial waste but eat bananas.
- In plain terms
- A new driver carries bananas to a poor city where kids play in slag.
- What can you take from it?
- Work continues even in harsh environments where life persists alongside waste.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you find meaning in daily work?
- What does survival look like to you?
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