This above all: To thine own self be true!
The more I think upon it, the more I think that the one trait that all the people that I admire have in common is that they have the moral courage to hold on to their convictions. I think that if you trawl through history, today’s iconic figures (barring that person of the year who keeps getting kicked out of my public library for surfing for porn *sigh*), or even that guy who lives down that street that you give maximum-respect (po-po-po) to, or even bosses that while you don’t particularly like them, you respect the hell out of them; I’ve found that to a (wo)man, they all have the testicular fortitude to hold on to this central kernel of what they believe in and they are willing to face public ridicule and opposition to stand up for this concept. (more…)
