It’s fine to seek the opinion of others in the process of forming your own. We all learn from each other in that way, and that’s a good thing. It’s fine to enjoy the recognition of others for things you do well, but there’s only one person’s approval you really need: your own.

Whether the song brings to mind for you Buddy Holly or the Rolling Stones matters not. You might not even know the song, at all. And don’t worry, I’m not going to go off on a long diatribe about the twisted ways in which songs like this skew our image of self. Nope. I’m gonna leave it alone. This time…

You can be responsible for yourself, hold yourself accountable for your thoughts, words and deeds - all without beating yourself up when you screw up. Accept the fact that you’ll probably always make mistakes. Last time I checked, none of us were perfect, so it’s very likely to happen. But, when it does…

I was watching a favorite movie the other night (Moonstruck, starring Cher and Nicolas Cage) and a line jumped out at me and made me think. For those of you who’ve seen the movie, it was in the scene when Olympia Dukakis (who plays the Cher’s character’s mother) was being walked home by John Mahoney [...]

I honestly don’t remember much about the movie carrying this post’s title, other than it was a good movie and somehow an absence of malice meant a crime was not committed. Maybe I’ll rent it and watch it again all these years later, and find even more correlation between it and what I’m feeling today.
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