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bottom" I must have heard that phrase a hundred times if I heard it once. When I was a child it meant : "You have to stand on your own two feet." ER, there I go again. But really, I think I thought in a literal sense when I was very little. I heard Bible stories about not resting on what the our forefathers had accomplished but to go and do for ourselves. I must have thought that it meant that you could not assume that, because you had family that had accomplished something, I could sit back and do nothing. I also think that it means that, just because your mother or father is a fine upstanding citizen, one should not assume that you can ride into jobs, associations and homes on their coattails. That means that you become a fine upstanding citizen yourself without expecting favors because of who they are. One must find a place in this world that is uniquely their own. This is the only way to have respect for oneself and gain respect from others. So let me close with this. "It's not who you are and what you've got. It's what you do with who you are and what you've got." |
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