A COMPANION FOR ME
"I have to live with myself, and so
I want to be fit for myself to know;
I want to be able as days go by
Always to look myself in the eye;
I don't want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I've done.
"I don't want to keep on the closed shelf
A lot of secrets about myself,
And fool myself as I come and go
Into thinking that nobody else will know
The kind of person I really am; *-**  .
I don't want to dress myself up in a sham.  \awA*m\
"I want to go out with my head erect,
I want to deserve all men's respect;        , *
Bub here in the struggle for fawe and gelf, /U>d^>
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to think as I come and. go
That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show.
"I can never hide myself from me,
I see what others may never see,
I know what others may never know,
I can never fool myself - and so,
Whatever happens, I want to be
Self-respecting and conscience free."
You are familial with that immortal truth in "Hamlet":
I "To thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."