Kent M. Keith

Doing Good When Recognition Never Arrives

Ultimately, “Do good anyway” is a call to choose principle over popularity as the measure of a life. It implies that character is forged precisely when external incentives fail, and we must decide who we are without the comfort of being seen. In continuing to act justly, kindly, and courageously in the face of indifference, we affirm that goodness is not a transaction but an identity. In this sense, being forgotten is not the failure of goodness; it is the stage on which genuine goodness proves itself. [...]