Be the Best of You

Growing up, most of us were told to be the best.
We were motivated, sometimes pushed over the limit.
Some parents wanted to live their lives through their
children's - you might want to listen to Alanis'
"Perfect" in "Jagged Little Pill" album-,
while others just purely meant their kids to be the best.
Point is: often they told us to be "the best of all",
and many teachers preached the same to their students.

One problem: no one could be the best of all.

We're given specific talents with specific family issues,
educational background, traumas, capabilities.
So why not: "be the best of you"?

One could crack one of the greatest universe code -Einstein
for an example-, but he could never really set codes for a
citizen -maybe as Jefferson did.
They're just doing what they're given.

Sure, sure, perserverance made it all impossible, but
come on, did we expect Newton's Three Laws of Motion
to come out of Shakespeare?
Or Gandhi inventing e-banking model?
Probably the hardest work of all was not to achieve,
but to find the road to see what to gain ahead.

Some people were given the ability to be so friendly,
while others -let's assume by effects of family and
society of growing up- found it hard just to smile.
So we expected the friendly one to have more friends than the
uptight one.
Please let's not push the latter to be a society magnet, when he'd
probably be a much more focused person than the former.

I wanted to stop this by simply stating:
"You just do your best with what you're given."

The next question would be:
"What your gifts really are?"
And "nothing" could not be one of the answers to that.

 --------- Soposurung, Indonesia
May 18, 2012 -- 2:31 AM local time -----

Matthew 25:29 (NIV version):
²⁹ For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

Everyday is a Renewal

We don't need birthdays
We don't need new years
Don't wait 'till it's Christmas
Or wedding day's ahead

Everyday is a renewal