Managing My Own Behaviour

How I wish others would do

Always just as I want them to!

How I wish I could tell them to reform

When to my expectations they don’t conform!

But, I now realize, this just can’t always be,

For, to do as they wish people are free.

Criticizing others can well cause strife.

Let me focus, instead, on my own life.

Every person their own life must lead,

They’re responsible for their every deed.

Each for their own life must finally give a reply,

For everything that they did, and also why.

I finally came to understand, at long last

(After making many errors in the past),

That others’ behaviour I just cannot control,

So, managing my own behaviour should be my goal.