Washington was well known for sticking to a task that he had undertaken. He couldn’t be shaken from doing his duty, or fulfilling his promise.

After he had fought in the French and Indian War, served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, Served as Commander in Chief of the United Colonial Armies until he won the War, served as President of the Constitutional Convention, was unanimously elected, not once but twice as the President of the new United States of America, he finally wanted to return home to Mount Vernon to live out his life. The country wanted him to serve a third term as President, but he finally declined a job! He truly had served enough!!

It seems it is a little like the story about the Cabbage and the Brussels Sprout. “Life is a gamble,” a mother Cabbage told her offspring, Brussels Sprout. “You have to fend off animals, bugs, mold, and rot. But if you hang in there, you’ll grow.”

“I’ll try,” said the little Sprout. “But how long does this take. When should I stop growing?”

“As with any other gamble,” said Mother Cabbage. “Quit when you’re a head!”

Indeed, how could George Washington have done anything more than he already did?