It's This Simple: If I Never Try

Stands Must Be Taken. If I Am To Respect Myself I Have To Search Myself For What I Believe Is Right And Take A Stand On What I Find. Otherwise, I Have Not Gathered Together What I Have Been Given; I Have Not Embraced What I Have Learned; I Lack My Own Conviction.

I Can't Be Found In Myself; I Discover Myself In Others. That Much Is Clear. And I Suspect That I Also Love And Care For Myself In Others.

For Communication To Have Meaning It Must Have A Life. It Must Transcend "you And Me" And Become "us." If I Truly Communicate, I See In You A Life That Is Not Me And Partake Of It. And You See And Partake Of Me. In A Small Way We Then Grow Out Of Our Old Selves And Become Something New. To Have This Kind Of Sharing I Cannot Enter Into A Conversation Clutching Myself. I Must Enter Into It With Loose Boundaries. I Must Give Myself To The Relationship, And Be Willing To Be What Grows Out Of It.

Just When I Think I Have Learned The Way To Live, Life Changes And I Am Left The Same. The More Things Change The More I Am The Same. I Am What I Started With, And When It Is All Over I Will Be All That Is Left Of Me.

Because The Results Are Unpredictable, No Effort Of Mine Is Doomed To Failure.