TRY

(Showing off my tended tresses by Shawn Cutler)

I woke up this morning with a slight memory of my dreams from the night before, it was about taking the next step of my life. I was no longer in Malaysia, I was back out in another foreign place trying something new and taking another risk.  As I turned on my laptop, my American Boy said good morning and gave me a little encouragement with this quote:

It is not the critic who counts

Nor 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 know great enthusiasm,

Great devotion and the triumph

of achievement.

And who, at the worst, if he fails

At least fails while daring greatly -

So that his place shall never be

With those odd and timid souls

Who know neither victory nor defeat.

You’­ve never lived until you’ve almost died .

For those who have had to fight for it

Life truly has a flavour

The protected shall never know.

-Theodore Roosevelt

My American Boy says, “… always remember, there’s no shame in failure- just shame in not trying and ur trying in the best way.”