Ellen sent me This Thing (I can’t call it a poem). It’s called anyway. I’m going to send it with this letter. It is what i knew to say when people accuse us or try to hurt us.
Brent Brents 4-7-12
Anyway
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow
Do good anyway
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable
Be honest and frank anyway
What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build Anyway
People really need help but may attack you if you help them
Help people anyway
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway
–From a sign on the wall of Shishu Bhavan, The Children’s home in Calcutta.
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