I had a revelation

Sometimes I think about how I stack up against my personal heroes, against the great men of the faith, against the great men of history. I KNOW that there are and have been better men than me. And I had this revelation of sorts that as long as men like that exist, what right do I have to be a man like me? I can wallow in self-pity, I can complain about the cards I’ve been dealt, I can beat myself up over the bad decisions I’ve made, but at the end of the day I have the same opportunity as every man that has ever been my better to be a better man myself. Today, tomorrow, when I have children, when I have grandchildren. I can be better for them. So that one day, when they’re looking at me, they don’t see what I struggled with, but they see the better man that came out of that struggle.