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On Being Great

I can't recollect a period when I wasn't distracted with my own integrity .  Am I great?  Am I great?  Be that as it may, am I sufficient?  Great is a word that kids hear early and frequently. A kid most likely hears the expression "be great" – as an admonishment, a summon, an argue – a few times each day from a few unique grown-ups. They may hear it so regularly that they won't generally make sure what great means but to realize that they completely aren't.  When I was in kindergarten I felt that decency existed as a major aspect of a parallel, as in possibly you were or you weren't. It didn't take me long to make sense of what side of the condition I fell on; regardless of how hard I attempted to hush up about my considerations, to remain at my work area, to model myself after the tidy young ladies who sat so still thus noiseless at circle time, it was never enough. I could see that decency worked out easily for a few people – I f...