what is required of us

I suppose what is required of us is to be the best we can be.
Sometimes I compare too much.
this is a good reminder:
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Just Be The Best

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,

Be a scrub in the valley - but be

the best little scrub at the side of the rill:

Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass

Some highway to happier make;

If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass

But the liveliest bass in the lake.

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew.

There's something for all of us here;

There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,

And the task we must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail;

If you can't be a sun, be a star.

It isn't by size that you win or you fail-

BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE!
By Douglas Wallock