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Show (utterUe I ! (Rainbows V I : iMZ VqIyvU In BeJM&zn - .' Enough is enough! The Boss complains nearly every week that all I write is 'Butterflies and Rainbows'. 'You never bother your mind with the really important things of life,' he says. Well, you're wrongt Boss! My m ind IS bothered by all that, alright. We're bombarded on every side, TV, radio, newspaper, news-paper, even our daily conversation con-versation finds us extolling our latest ills to friends we meet on the street. To my mind a good word, or refreshing look at some of the beautiful things of life is like a breath of fresh air. We need it for balance. It gives renewed hope, renewed re-newed courage and I can face life with a better perspective. I came across this thought by Larry Chengga the other day, and I like most of what ; he Jiastosay.lt goes like this. I 'I am I. Do not change me or condemn me, nor put me down. Accept me for what I am. : No, you need not agree with me, but accept me for I am total in being, I have my faults, I have my guilts, : but that is who I am . : Perfect I will never be. Allow me to be unhibited. : Do not pressure me Into feeling what I do not feel. Accept me when I am fly- ing high as I have accepted you. . . Do not put me down, nor make me feel unhappy about me. I am I, and I like being what I am. . . Mc' Really" what Larry is saying is 'Be yourself, and allow me the same privilege.' privi-lege.' It doesn't mean that we can't compromise now and then. We needn't have the attitude 'I'm doing what I'm doing, and if you don't like it - too bad. I'll never condescend to your wishes. Everything's got to be done my way or not at all.' 'Perfect I will never be' suitsme to a T. Anyone expecting perfection will never find it. I am mold-able mold-able to a point, but after that point, I am not the person I was meant to be. I lose my own identity. I become someone else. Perhaps Per-haps the person you want me to be, but I'm not Me. I believe we should be adaptable. Able to make minor adjustments now and then. Your preferences and desires should have precedence prece-dence over my own at times. Giving and taking makes us both stronger. I'd add a little to Larry's philosophy. I'd say, 'Help me to be the best I can be. Help me overcome my many shortcomings, but somehow tolerate them untill'vemade it, and help me fill the empty spaces in my life with the - good and beautiful things of life. Don't break my spirit. Don't chain my thoughts and actions with unnecessary restraints. re-straints. Give me room to savor life, the good and the bad, and still be me.' Butterflies and Rainbows, and all points in between that's the way it's going to be from now on. |
