JUST ANOTHER RAT IN THE RACE

Leo Roston...

"The purpose of life is not just to be happy. The purpose of life is the be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."

JUST ANOTHER RAT IN THE RACE

So you think you are, or are going to be, or trying to be happy

Is that all you want of you?

Is there anything beyond yourself that you would want to be?

With some, that is all they really plan to do

Is your compassion self directed?

Are your responsibilities just your own?

Are your duties carefully selected

For just the seeds you've sown?

Are you ready to shed the selfishness and take a stand for something?

There has to be a time for others to count

Will you leave this world accountable for nothing

Mountains straight ahead that you failed to surmount?

To have been so narcicistic

That the world revolved without you

Your goals were so simplistic

There is no one to surround you