The Weight of Glory – C. S. Lewis (1980)
As a race, we often have the audacity to believe that the world will fall apart if we stop doing whatever it is that we consider so important. Then when we find that it doesn’t we find it difficult to comprehend and too often start a compare strategy to prove that it was better when we were in control. Thus, we strive to demonstrate our importance.
This is never more in evidence than when someone retires, or leaves a job they have done for the same company for years. However, although things may subsequently be done differently, mostly things do continue and, dare I say it can even flourish now there is the option to make progressive changes.
It then does not make for a pleasant experience to go back for a visit. No one likes to be so blatantly reminded that they were just a small cog in a very big wheel, or that however much they put into something that they have so easily been replaced.
As far as I can see there are rarely any situations where someone is so totally irreplaceable that if they should no longer be somewhere then everything will fall apart.