For me this poem really represents holding out to the best of yourself even if you are not recognised and rewarded. Sometimes when you have been nice, truthful, successful, truthful, helpful and so on you get nothing in return… which mostly we handle. What’s worse is when you’re not recognised or actually criticised/put down. Everyone can handle this every now and then but do it continuously is a one way ticket to burn out for all of us.
What I feel is in these situations, stand up for yourself, have boundaries, have the courage to ask for your boundaries to be respected but most of all keep being the best of you are, which is actually who you are anyway. I always think of the knights in fantasy books (not so much in our real medieval history), who did the right thing just because it was right thing even if there was an easier way of doing things. Even if everyone around them was following a different path. This really is a way to continue on in life on a solid foundation. If you know you’ve done right by whats true to you, no one can really ever shake your resolve.
Favourite line:
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway ❤
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