My Unit

My siblings they stress me and de-stress me.
My parents tell me off and pet me.
My family, they make me laugh, they make me think.
They feed me and teach me.
They annoy me and I annoy them.
I will never be able to repay them for all that they do.
I am grateful to them for who they are.
We have our quarrels, we say things we shouldn’t.
But they are still mine and only mine.
My unit, always in my heart and in my mind.

Greatness

In the past centuries, great people have lived and died. Gandhi, Einstein, Darwin and Confucius are some of the many great people that influenced the lives of so many around them.

The people I mentioned above had an impact on the thought processes of peoples. And as time passes and their existence becomes a distant memory, their ideals and actions will either become stronger or fade away. Time makes them great. Reflection of what they did and said makes them great.

Greatness is relative though. For many, parents are great, friends are great, pets, poets, scientists, philosophers or doctors are great. It just depends on the experiences and associations one has.

How is greatness achieved? As William Shakespeares ‘Twelfth Night’ proclaims, ‘Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

And of course, with greatness comes responsibility.