@Jeruba – I am not sure if your implying that, by my response, I regard modesty as insulting. I can’t find that implication in there. Quite the contrary, I feel it is an amiable trait. A lost art form even.
And no, You didn’t offer any criticism of the question but you did make a statement about it by actively denouncing anything that would constitute and answer to it.
As far as looking to ourselves for inspiration and not to others. I think that we should look to ourselves, but I don’t see anything wrong with looking to others as well. Don’t you and I both, in fact, participate in an ongoing thread that is based on the idea of accountability and support?
I was really looking forward to all the great stories of people helping people. How weak I must be for wanting and, yes, even needing that type of affirmation.