What I learned at Yosemite (part 2)
Karl Bastian, the leader of our trip to Yosemite and founder of Kidology.org, shared the following poem with us. I want it to be my only ambition.
I am Free
by Karl Bastian
I've given up the need to be needed.
It doesn't matter if I matter.
It's no longer important to be important.
I give up the right to be right.
I won't notice if I'm not noticed.
Being significant is no longer significant.
I won't demand to be in demand.
It won't impact my world if I don't impact the world.
I won't feel dry if I can't make a splash.
My purpose isn't to have a purpose.
I've had enough of not having enough.
I choose to be a human being, not a human doing.
I've traded the race for a simple embrace of life.
I live only to have truly lived
As a child of God.
I am free
Of me.