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To Miss Vivian Costello, who always gave more than she took and left the world a better place than she found it.
To Don Walter, who stepped into a big pair of shoes and didn’t care if he filled them. One of the things I admire about him most is his ability to be himself.
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I’ll never be able to please everyone, so I need to stop worrying about it. There is a great sense of freedom in knowing that.
The sense of freedom I gain lets me see that it isn’t what other people think about me, it’s what I think they think of me that has the power to hurt me. After all, most people don’t come up and tell me what they think of me, especially if it is negative. Nearly all the negative things people think of me are not my reality, but exist only in my own vivid imagination. I make these thoughts and fears up as I go along. And I make up other fears that accompany the original fears I imagined. Then, I project these fears onto the other person or people, even though there is a strong possibility these people weren’t thinking of me at all. It is only logical. Many people practice “projection,” or the attribution of their own thoughts, feelings, and conclusions to others.
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