“The most important thing to remember is this:
To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.”
–W. E. B. Du Bois
What have you given up to become something new?
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I’ve given up two Thursday evenings a month to support a group of people in my community who want to learn more or some Spanish even though they aren’t interested or able to sign up for a regular class. I end up teaching some of it pretty often. The things is that I speak Spanish but not always grammatically. Some in the group seem to want to learn grammar and speak correctly. I’m not a perfectionist so I just stumble along, but having lived in Arequipa, Peru, as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years, I learned that even with mistakes I could communicate with people there and we could be friends and co-workers.I think it’s worth it to “do what you can” instead of getting hung up on correctness all the time.