It feels good though. Just those simple accomplishments can get you motivated to keep moving... and with more determination that before. Some people will look at it and have little if anything to say. To each their own. This is important to me on a number of levels. For some of my friends, nothing I do is important to them. At least not on the surface.
But then... some people are extremely limited in their views: both of themselves and thus of others.
So for them... and the many others who will criticize, rebuke and demean those who follow their goals while they themselves remain content to merely exist, I submit the following:
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the 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 1910, The Sorbonne, Paris France.
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