22 April 2014: Be kind, anyway...

Here is the value of CHECKING THINGS OUT before distributing them.  I was going to tell people about "Maria Teresa's poem," but then a web search found this information...

http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/index.html

http://www.dbooth.org/guat2000/small/teresa.htm

Here is the important part:


[Reportedly inscribed on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, and attributed to her. However, an article in the New York Times has since reported (March 8, 2002) that the original version of this poem was written by Kent M. Keith.]

By using "truthOrFiction" and other truth-detecting websites (like Snopes.com), we can become reliable, informed people. The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, 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 will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do 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 have anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001

Comments:  I like being contrary, so I'll be kind, anyway.