An idiot

Help me cling on to kindness, humility and truth
Help me persevere with my search for beauty
It is in me, outside me
If I persevere, I will refind it
In the meantime, I’ll allow myself embrace me being an idiot.

“I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me — and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me.” – The idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky