My greatest accomplishment is aging. I believe that people become more beautiful as they age, because they are wiser, more lived, more tarnished. There is beauty in the breakdown just as there is beauty in innocence. As you grow older you realize that not everyone will like the song you sing, and not everyone will respect the seeds you sow. But you sing and grow despite these things, stronger as the years go by, because you realize that there is more to life than the petty issues you were concerned with when you were young. Just as you experience joy, the wind will carry your voice, and just as you experience pain, the rain will knock your stem sideways until it wilts to the ground. But you learn how to withstand it all. I am proud of all the things I have learned that make me stronger, wiser, and more beautiful.