It's Not Easy Being Me

Rodney Dangerfield said "It's not easy being me." Rodney, I feel your pain.
"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." Epictetus

I am unapologetically me. I have used the word "unapologetically" a lot here lately. I have spent the past several years getting to know myself as Epictetus suggested. Sometimes I liked what I saw and other times, I realized I needed to make a drastic change, especially in the way I treated people. I would like to believe I am on the right track. I like to incorporate a lot of different philosophies and principles into my belief system. I borrow from many different religions, philosophers, and great thinkers, some from the past and some from the present.

I used to work with a guy who was a mechanic at a store I worked at and his father and two sisters were extremely wealthy. I was giving him a hard time one day because he was not wealthy like the rest of his family. He told me that his family had sold their soul for money. He told me "I work hard, I treat everyone as well as I can, and at the end of the day, I sleep like a baby." An excellent philsophy with the exception of the working hard part. I haven't exactly got the sleeping like a baby part down pat either.