The surf doesn’t care
if you show up.
The wind is ambivalent
about your accomplishments.
The sand could care less
whose feet are treading on it.
They simply go about their business.
When we stop letting ourselves be
swayed
by who is in the room,
the attention others are getting,
the obstacles that seem to press us down,
we can get back to the business of
being better,
doing better,
caring.
Every. Single. Day.