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Where in the world did the words ‘serve’ and ‘care’ first come from, and what do they mean to all of us today? Discover the history of service and care, and the connection to the future we all share.
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Historically the word service comes from the word slav. In the 9th century when the Slavic people were conquered and were forced to become subservient and that became the root of the word slav. Then slave was the root of the word serve but that’s not what we’re talking about today. It’s not like the customer is king and the service provider is a subservient slave. No, no, no. If serve is taking action to create value then the service provider is the creator of value. The person who serves is the source of greater well-being in the world. That’s not a slave. That is one of the most esteemed positions of all being a service provider. Nice change of point of view.
We’ve done something similar to the word care. Now you may not know this but the word care originally came from the old german. The word was Karu and what it meant was to grieve. Because in the old days if you were wounded, if you were sick, or if you were old, you were gonna die. So the only thing that we could really do for you was worry about you, or tend to you as you were going through your demise, or grieve for your passing. That’s not what we mean by care today. Is it not? Today what we mean is that I’m going to encourage you. I’m going to enable you. My job is to empower you, to inspire you, to educate you. to support you, to motivate you. That’s what it means to truly care about someone.
