Can't agree more!!!

Came across a couple of nice quotations today:

“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which reminded me of this one from the blog of a friend who has decided to stop blogging (I hope he changes his decision):

Across the fields of yesterday, He sometimes comes to me,

A little lad just back from play, The boy I used to be.

He looks at me so wistfully, When once he's crept within,

It is as if he hoped to see, The man I might have been.

I will not ruin the significance of these magnificent words by trying to explain them. I only wish that at the end of my life I can close my eyes in peace, and say to myself that I was successful in living a life true to the meaning of these.