Hi All.
I wanted to share with you one of my absolute favorite poems. One that I hold close to me and that helps me through tough times. I'm sure some of you may already know it and some may be new to it. Either way, may it inspire you to be the best that you are.
IF....by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing thiers and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make your thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted with knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you've given your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make on heap of all your winnings
And risk it on on turn of pitch and toss,
And lose and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "HOLD ON!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lost the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men cound with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
This poem makes me want to fight for what I believe on and to hold on to hope. I hope it touches you any way as it has touched me. Either way, there will be more poetry to come.
Love you all!
