On Being Myself To Me

Smile, grumpy!

Whatever your line of work maybe, or from wherever you may be coming from, I hope what you are doing goes according what is right and what can make you happy with yourself. It has been said that the ultimate judge/critic is one's self (or something like that). Living this way is a surefire way to get up happy each day. This piece from Edgar Guest taken from Frank Mihalic's The Next 500 Stories should sum it up:

On Being Myself To Me

I have to live  with myself and so

I want to be fit for myself to know

I want to be able as days go by

Always to look myself in the eye

I don't want to stand with the setting sun

And hate myself for the things I've done

I want to go out with my head erect

I want to deserve all men's respect

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf

I want to be able to like myself

I don't want to look myself and know

That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show

I know what others may never know

I can never fool myself and so,

Whatever happiness, I want to be

Self respecting and conscience free