{"id":3949,"date":"2019-09-28T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2019-09-28T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T01:31:08","slug":"if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/28\/if\/","title":{"rendered":"if"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you can keep your head when all about you\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But make allowance for their doubting too;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or being lied about, don\u2019t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don\u2019t give way to hating,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And yet don\u2019t look too good, nor talk too wise:<\/p>

If you can dream\u2014and not make dreams your master;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you can think\u2014and not make thoughts your aim;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And treat those two impostors just the same;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
If you can bear to hear the truth you\u2019ve spoken
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And stoop and build \u2019em up with worn-out tools:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To serve your turn long after they are gone,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Except the Will which says to them: \u2018Hold on!\u2019<\/p>

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or walk with Kings\u2014nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With sixty seconds\u2019 worth of distance run,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Yours is the Earth and everything that\u2019s in it,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And\u2014which is more\u2014you\u2019ll be a Man, my son!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts from \u2018Brother Square-Toes\u2019\u2014Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been been reading and listening<\/a> to this poem for sometime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you can keep your head when all about you\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But make allowance for their doubting too;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or being lied about, don\u2019t deal in … <\/p>\n

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