Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Be your best

This poem helped me stop worrying and get to work in Argentina:

Be the Best of Whatever You Are

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley, but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill,
Be a bush if you can't be a tree,
If you can't be a bush be a bit of grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskiek, then just be a bass,
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here,
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star;
It isn't by the size that you win or fail,
Be the best of whatever you are!

-Douglas Mallech

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