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From the time I was a child
until the day I left home,
I had the following poem
hanging over my bed.

It was given to me by my father.
Well.. It was given to my older brother
and when one of my older sisters got married
and moved away from home,
my bro and I got our own bedrooms.
He took her room and
and he left it hanging there.

It did and does not matter.

I would read it and question it...
Wonder what the hell it was all about...
As I grew, I would recall portions of it...
and start to understand it.. *Gulp*

It is one of the best writings of manhood.

Now all grown *Sigh*,
I have two copies hanging on my walls.

I guess manhood,
maturity, character
and integrity
come with age.
*Smile*



IF

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head
when all about you are losing theirs
and blaming it on you.

If you can trust yourself
when all men doubt you,
but make allowances 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 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 by knaves
to make a trap for fools,
or watch the things
you gave your life to, broken
and stoop to build'em up
with worn out tools.

If you can make one heap
of all your winnings
and risk it on one 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 the crowds
and keep your virtue,
or walk with kings
nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends
can hurt you,
if all men count 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!


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