A Time to Become

A GOOD DEAL of human unhappiness and maladjustment seems due to the individual's inability to accept the fact that it takes time to "become." Much remorse and guilt are produced by the individual's inability to accept his mistakes. Often he demands of himself that he be today what he can only hope to become some day in the future. One of the essentials for effective self improvement seems to be a degree of compassion for oneself, willingness to permit one's self to "be" while one goes through the process of "becoming."