Life’s journal…

As days may pass, i know life will offer me trials as well as treasures, tears as well as triumphs.  Yet, i strive in walking down life’s winding pathways with courage, humor and hope, savoring fully my achievements and learning from my defeats.  As much as i can, i speak kindly of others…and think kindly of myself.  Be forgiving, no less of my own mistakes than of others… Learn to laugh…and to listen as much as i want to… Aspiring to an unreachable perfection, met merely to gain approval in the eyes of my loved ones… Realizing that i am capable of reaching difficult goals and exceeding them, of dreaming wonderful dreams and making them come true, of achieving the only kind of success that really matters–that of being at peace with myself and with the world around me…Striving instead, to live to the best of my ability by those personal honor and excellence which only i can set… and cherish above all my individuality.