…carries their own weight, pays their own fare. <br /> <br />…has no price, they can't be bought. <br /> <br />…has infinite compassion, they forgive without hesitation. <br /> <br />…doesn't laugh at the shortcomings of others; epicaricacy or schadenfreude is eschewed. <br /> <br />…finds no comfort in a lie, no matter how comforting it might be. <br /> <br />…wants only what is fairly theirs: greed is a form of theft. <br /> <br />…is a reasonable person, they don't abandon reality for the seductions of fantasy. <br /> <br />…doesn't squander their talents, or ignore their passions. <br /> <br />…won't do to another that which they would not want done to themselves. <br /> <br />…knows that accomplishment and love and happiness and joy are infinitely abundant and rapidly multiplied in the sharing of these supreme aspirations, they never miss a chance to foster any of these along. <br /> <br />…strives for perfection.<br /><br />Steven SRS<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-person-of-exemplary-caliber-2/
