Words

“Words are for those with promises to keep”

WH Auden

I don’t know the context, I just liked the sentence. Promises are a challenging aspect of life that really tests your moral strength. I give you my word. Word of honour. A man’s word is his bond. He broke his word. All have a certain poetry about them.

Youness

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

Another angle on Oscar Wilde’s famous quote: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” There’s quite some wonder in the realisation that each of us is unique. The challenge is to make that unique human as benign and constructive as possible. Which chimes in with George Bernard Shaw’s notion that

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

which suggests we have more agency than we might think over our ability to shape ourselves over time.

GBS says: Happy self shaping, amigos