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

 

Tribute to a School Dropout

Smile, grumpy!

One day, a partially deaf boy came home from school with a note. It suggested that his parents take him out of school. The note said that the boy was "too stupid to learn."

When the boy's mother read the note, she said, "My son Tom isn't 'too stupid to learn', I'll teach him myself.

When Tom died many years later, the people of North America paid tribute to him by turning off the nation's lights for one full minute.

Thomas Edison had invented not only the light bulb we read by, but also the motion picture we watch and the record player we listen to. He has over 1,000 patents to his credit.

- Brian Cavanaugh taken from The Next 500 Stories

The next time your boss, teacher, parent/s or anyone else tell you that your stupid, think of Thomas Edison and prove them wrong. Have a nice day!