THE ANATOMY OF GREATNESS (II)

Models are idols unless we are engaged.

What does greatness do while becoming? That's what I've wondered and intend to reveal just in case I accomplish. What drives its days? How dark are its nights? Does the sun shine as brightly as it unfolds or only after success falls? Knowing its pattern is important, especially if we are aspirants, because it enables us to compare ourselves with others. Comparisons, however, are no guarantee. But rightly used they can encourage.

BEING ALONE

Some moments make us measure the worth of our lives. Hence, our tendency to avoid.

We are seldom alone. We strive in fact never to be so. Something about it gouges and creates a gulf where none exists. Even so, we feel it deeply when it descends, especially when it prolongs. Hence, the value of friends. By these we are saved from ourselves. Those without are prone to endure without complaining (or pretending), as many of these require. Even when befriended they refuse to be severed from themselves.