Let me be a little [C] kinder Let me [G] be a little [D] blinder To the [C] faults of those about me Let me praise a little [D] more
Glen Campbell wrote this song before he became Glen Campbell, Everly Brothers recorded it on their Roots album, and it is now nearly forgotten. (Roger Miller.) But it expresses the sentiment with which you finish your piece.
I like it (the song and the sentiment), while seeing how unrealistic, why, utopian, it is. After many years experience in computer technical support, both company internal and external, I can tell you that thinking more of others and less of me is not appreciated and not rewarded (except perhaps via self-satisfaction.) I happened to be unemployed, forcibly retired now, and am being advised to volunteer here and there, at inner city schools, or teaching children of prisoners to read, and I say, I can honestly tell you, ef-U!
Having said that, I don't recall a rollback of a welfare state in human history, and it ain't going to happen in France or here. I am further certain that the reaction to an attempted rollback in this country would be the same or even more violent than in France and Greece. Gimme mo foo stams!
Bro, we’ve talked, and if you cannot say you haven’t actually, truly given selflessness a chance, you don’t truly know how well it works. When I stop living for me and start living for others, is when I get what I need.
People see the attitude, they like it, and they reward it. This has been my experience. I don’t do it FOR that reward, of course, but it is there.
Turns out Jesus Christ was right all along. He says that the servant is the greatest among us.