"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."Very sobering words, I thought. Especially as we hear criticism and desperation, day in and day out. We appear to expect others to fix our challenges.
It is time to search for our own answers to the statement made of JFK:
“Ask not what my country (myself, my friends, my boss, my city) can do for me; but I can do for my country (myself, my friends, my boss, my city)”.
The time has come for each of us to be “the person in the arena” to be a noble leader or to follow a noble leader and help build a more secure and harmonious community.
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