You And Your Most Faithful Friend If you can start the day without caffeine, If you can get going without pep pills, If you are always cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it, If you can understand when your love ones are too busy to give you any time, If you are going to overlook it when those you love take it out on you when through no fault on yours something goes wrong, If you can take criticism and blame withoput resentment, If you can ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him, If you can resist treating a reach friend better than a poor friend, If you can face the world without lies, without deceit, If you can conquer tension without medical help, If you can relax without liquor and sleep without drugs, If you can say honestly that deep in your heart you have no prejudice, whatever, against any creed, any color, any religion or anybody's politics, If you can be all these things--all of them, My friend, you are almost as good as your dog!