Live My Own Life

Life is a balance between what do I want to do and what do I want to become. An unnecessary complication is to add "what do others want of me."

You can be a good family member, friend, and a good neighbor without sacrificing parts of your life to satisfy other's expectations. Set your own expectations high, and then decide for yourself what is important.

"It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

It is your life, live your own life in a way that is meaningful - to you.

Why is it that millions of children who are pushouts or dropouts amount to business as usual in the public schools, while one family educating a child at home becomes a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy? - Stephen Arons