I loved your memo, btw...

''It's not a memo, it's a mission statement.''

Monday, December 30, 2002

I found this poem of acceptance by annoynmous. It is a great poem.

Sometimes I feel that people don't accept one another for whatever reason. Acceptance is not making people feel uncomfortable or weird. Acceptance is not forcing people into your mold. Acceptance is being able to embrace each other's differences. I may not always be this person, but I hope to learn and grow to be.

Maybe I may never be the secure person I want to be, but I am trying day by day to accept and appreciate the person I am.

For I am unique and one of a kind. I'm not anybody's boy and I will not conform!
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Poem On Acceptance, by Anonymous
(The only person on earth you need to be accepted by is yourself.)
When you get what you want in the struggle for the self,
And the world makes you king and queen for the day,
Just go to a mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that person has to say!
For it isn't your father, mother, friend or host,
Whose judgement upon you must pass;
The person whose verdict counts the most,
Is the one staring from the glass.
Some may think you are a wonderful chum,
And call you as radiant as the sun;
But if the person in the mirror says you're dumb,
And you can't look him in the eye - you're done.
He is the one to please, never mind the rest,
For he will be with you until the end,
And you will have passed your most difficult test
If the person in the mirror becomes your friend.
You may fool the whole world along the years,
And get pats on your back as the ages you pass,
But your final reward will be jahannam and tears,
If you've cheated the person in the glass."

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