November 19, 2020 at 4:11 pm #90839
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For some reason, I often think of the world in terms of quotes, song lyrics and other text. After reading your message, what came to mind for me was a song that Rick Nelson did back in the day called Garden Party. The particular passage was:
Well, it’s alright now,
I learned my lesson well,
You see, you can’t please everybody,
So you got to please yourself…
We spend so much time and effort trying to live up to someone else’s expectations of us. Unfortunately the person that we want to be and need to be gets lost in the shuffle. I won’t say that it is easy, but it is honest.
A most recent phrase would be simply:
Don’t Be Them,
U B U…