"It is okay to simply be. Consider the bird who sings simply because she has a song."
Not exactly on point, but I am reminded of a poem by W.B. Yeats:
Paudeen
"INDIGNANT at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Of our old Paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind Among the stones and thorn trees, under morning light; Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought That on the lonely height where all are in Gods eye, There cannot be, confusion of our sound forgot, A single soul that lacks a sweet crystaline cry."
"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces guarding our country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense."
31 posted on 05/21/2016 6:48:23 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)