Anyway | Mother Teresa

I don’t really know what I was really thinking about when the words of the poem Anyway started trickling into my mind. One thing led to another and being such a webaholic that I am, I thought I would share the poem with the larger audience out there, because really this poem is magically inspiring and uplifting of sorts.

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

- Mother Teresa’s Anyway Poem

Mother Teresa, was and still is the champion of peace, a force to recon with in her own divine right, she was always there for those that had no one else. Mother Teresa chose to call my country birth country, India, home. She stayed there serving the down trodden till the day she passed away. She once said that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love, which left me in awe. She was and has always been inspiration to me. Though people know a lot about her in terms of the public figure she was, there was another side to her, the poet. She occasionally dabbled in words and produced marvelous poetry. This poem is one such piece. This is one of my all time favorite pieces of poetry ever written. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.