Originally broadcast on CHED radio - Date unknown

Shortly before his death, Ernest Hemingway said this, "To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is being superior to your previous self." My goodness how true that is and how hard that lesson comes to us all. In our business and social lives we are all too quick to criticize the other fellow. Without full knowledge of the facts we hasten to condemn and to malign. Often we kid ourselves into feeling very superior as we speak unkindly of someone who has stumbled and fallen. How much better it would be if first we cleaned up the shadowy areas of our own lives. How much bigger we would be if we tried only to become a better person today than we were yesterday. How much less heartbreak and suffering would there be in the world if in all areas of living we competed not with one another, but only with ourselves. The next time you are tempted to level an unkind accusation or to repeat an unkind rumor in the hopes of putting yourself in a superior light, reflect a little on what Hemingway said. "There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. True nobility is being superior to your previous self.”