"Love the earth and sun and the animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labors to others,
Hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
Have patience and indulgence toward the people,
Take off your hat to nothing known or unknown,
Or to any man or number of men,
Go freely with powerful uneducated persons,
And with the young and with the mothers of families,
Read these leaves in the open air,
Every season of every year of your life,
Reexamine all you have been told,
At school at church or in any book,
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
-Walt Whitman
At every season of your life, reexamine all that you do and all that you've been told. This is a necessary process in our day and age. It's amazing how easily we drift off course. It's also amazing how few like-minded souls we encounter that can help us navigate our way. You will need to get away, perhaps for a weekend alone and ask yourself what stays and what goes in your life.
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