I’m sure I’ve probably posted this particular poem before, but it kept going through my mind today and given that I always try to let my blog reflect something I learned that day I decided to share it again:<\/p>\n
ANYWAY<\/span><\/p>\n People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; -Kent M. Keith<\/p>\n There are always going to be people who take advantage, mistreat, and use. We can’t control what other people choose to do. All we can control is what we do. Choose to do good anyway.<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sure I’ve probably posted this particular poem before, but it kept going through my mind today and given that I always try to let my blog reflect something I learned that day I decided to share it again: ANYWAY People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,16678,500,46,16687,16685,7003,16683,224,163,16677,83,16684,1804,743,16681,795,16688,55,16675,16689,16690,1522,16691,2531,16680,16679,16686,544,112,16682,10233,1378,149,1248,16692,16676,2039,1057,16693],"class_list":["post-8961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-anyway","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-be-a-builder","tag-be-honest","tag-be-kind","tag-be-kind-anyway","tag-confidence","tag-courage","tag-do-good-anway","tag-experience","tag-fals-friends","tag-forget","tag-forgive","tag-forgive-them-anyway","tag-friendships","tag-give-the-world-your-best","tag-happiness","tag-interpersonal-relationships","tag-it-is-between-you-and-god","tag-it-was-never-between-you-and-them","tag-jealous","tag-kent-m-keith","tag-mother-teresa","tag-people-are-self-centered","tag-people-are-unreasonable","tag-people-may-cheat-you","tag-relationships","tag-self-improvement","tag-selfish-motives","tag-serenity","tag-succeed","tag-success","tag-successful","tag-taken-advantage-of","tag-the-golden-rule","tag-true-friends","tag-ulterior-motives","tag-used"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8963,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961\/revisions\/8963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nForgive them anyway.
\nIf you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
\nBe kind anyway.
\nIf you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true friends; succeed anyway.
\nIf you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
\nBe honest and frank anyway.
\nWhat you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
\nBuild anyway.
\nIf you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
\nBe happy anyway.
\nThe good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
\nDo good anyway.
\nGive the world your best anyway.
\nYou see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
\nIt was never between you and them anyway.<\/p>\n