IF I AM NOT FOR MYSELF, WHO WILL BE FOR ME?
Being for yourself means recognizing your gifts and your strengths. Being for yourself means being honest about your faults without letting them keep you from doing good. Being for yourself means taking responsibility for making yourself more and more of a mentsch. No one can do it for you.
If you are not for yourself, you become your own worst enemy. You battle against your natural ability to make this world a little bit better. If you imagine that you can’t be any better than you have been in the past, you give up responsibility for the present and the future. This is the opposite of Mentschcraft.
But ...
... if you love and respect yourself—
... if you admit your fears and faults and then overcome them—
... if you choose to make the world a little kinder --
-- then you will discover that the world is with you. Being for yourself allows others to be for you as well. |
