I get people using my admin skills to try to basically plan

The words of Alex Horne, spoken with jest, reveal a deeper current beneath their laughter. When he says, "I get people using my admin skills to try to basically plan their wedding or stag night… 'Can you just come up with six tasks for us on our hen night?'", he speaks not only of humor but of the burden placed upon those with gifts of order and structure. For the world will ever call upon the organized soul, the one who can fashion chaos into harmony, to shoulder the plans of others. What begins in play hides a truth: the skilled are seldom left to rest, for even in revelry their talents are summoned.

This is the way of mankind—that when one is known for administration, for planning, for making smooth the paths of others, they are often bound to serve beyond their choosing. Yet let us not scorn this calling. For though it may seem trivial to shape the games of a night of mirth, still it springs from the same root as the ordering of great councils and armies. Did not Alexander’s generals rely on the careful scribes and record-keepers of his empire, who ensured that the conquests of the East were supplied, timed, and accounted for? Without such hidden servants, even the strongest warrior’s triumphs might have collapsed into dust.

There is also something tender in this plea for tasks, as though the celebrants know their joy cannot unfold without guidance. Just as the shepherd sets the flock upon the meadow’s path, so too do these revelers look to the planner to give shape to their delight. The request for “six tasks” is more than a game—it is a yearning for meaning even in the hours of laughter, for mankind hungers not only for freedom but for structure within it.

Let us remember the tale of Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer. He was called from his fields not to sow grain but to command Rome’s armies in her hour of peril. Though the request seemed far from his chosen life, he answered it with discipline and devotion, then returned humbly to his plow. So too does Alex Horne’s tale remind us: whether the demand be for war or for weddings, the skilled are summoned, and their service brings order to the lives of many.

Therefore, O listener, do not take lightly the laughter in this quote. For it speaks of the eternal truth that those who carry the gift of organization become stewards of others’ joy, whether in banquet halls, in councils of state, or upon the battlefield of life. To plan is to guide, to guide is to serve, and to serve—even in small things—is the mark of greatness.