Honesty

Honest self-evaluation is a grueling experience, but no personal growth comes apart from authentic introspection and courageous confession. Self-deception is the most ludicrous state of man. It's not that it's a strain for me to be hard on myself, but that I am selective about what I choose to regret. For that reason, and that reason alone, I am to blame for my own state of regression. Until I own up to every personal fault, failure, shortcoming, and self-induced sin without sloughing the blame onto someone else's shoulders, I remain confined to performing in a narrow theatre in which I am both actor and audience.