It’s a great thing to be recognized for something that you’ve done. But it’s a moment in time. You can’t live off of those accolades and make them the sum total of your importance in life, or your purpose in life. You can’t let them define who you are. Those awards, they’re wonderful. But they’re never going to define you. I define myself by my ability to give. I define myself by my ability to understand. I define myself by my ethics and by my truth. These are the things that inform who I am, other than exterior moments that ebb and flow.
