Life To Live

We grow from birth,
Seeking approval and acceptance.
And taught how to get it.
Until the ease of that task,
Becomes more of a challenge to satisfy...
The ones who demand,
A jumping through hopes.
Licking boots.
And the cleaning of filthy garbage cans.

Then...
Not overnight it happens.
No longer is acceptance and approval wished.
And a removing off one's path,
Are those obstacles.
Appearing as if pebbles on a beach.
To make it known eventually,
Life to live feeling successful...
Day, night or anytime at all.
Is the belief in one's self
To faithfully accept and steadfast approval.

'What I call that is conceit.'

'I know.
And I remember you calling me a loser,
For not believing in myself more.'

'Well...
Did or did you not,
Benefit from my negative assessment?
In a positive way?'

'That was the wrong thing,
For me to say to you.'

'Why?
I don't always take the credit,
For the miraculous ways my abilities have...
In changing the pitiful lives of my friends.
Hey?
I do what I do.
You know that.
Without attention on myself expected to get.
Humility is my nickname!'

'I...uh...I am...'

'I know.
Grateful? Right?