Triumph and Disaster
This morning I read, “Don’t be thin-skinned. Take criticism as well as praise with equal grace.” This was in a book of short sayings by H. Jackson Brown called The Complete Life’s Little Instruction Book . It is a cute little book and filled with truly wise advice, given by someone who appears to have learned some of these lessons firsthand! This quote reminded me of one of my all-time favorite poems. I remember the first time I ever heard someone recite “If” by Rudyard Kipling. When she got to the line, “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/And treat those two imposters just the same” I felt something resonate deeply. Every line of that poem inspired me! They say feedback is a gift, and if that’s true, then Christmas comes fairly often to me! I have always been the recipient of a lot of feedback. Whether it is the quality or style of my work, my hairstyles, or my mannerisms, people seem pretty comfortable just telling me whatever they think. On the one hand,