Sharing Your Light

Technology changes. The world moves on. 
And some careers are just not what they used to be.
 
There is not a big market presently for typewriters or carbon paper. Manufacturers of horse drawn buggies have seen better days. And the job of walking the streets lighting the gas lamps that once stood at every corner of some major cities has long since disappeared. 
 
Well, maybe. 

A rabbi was once asked by one of his students: “Rabbi, who is a righteous person?”

The rabbi answered: “A righteous person is a lamplighter. A lamplighter wanders through the streets carrying his flame. He recognizes that the flame doesn't belong to him. He simply keeps the flame alive. And he goes from street-corner to street-corner, from lamp-to-lamp, and shares his light.”