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Hello Everybody!
We've often talked about a Master being a Man, and I remembered this poem by Rudyard Kipling. What do you think about this? Any of it ring true for you? Any particular thoughts about it?
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sunshine
If
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 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 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 and build 'em up with wornout 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 breath 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 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!
Greetings sunshinemiss:
IMO the poetry symbolizes goals, dreams, aspirations and that which is characteristically hoped for even in the midst of utter despair or abounding in the heights of any calm of even the most fiercest storm of the soul.
When the foundation of what was thought of as formed and representative of a sort of security is found to be capable of crumbling right before ones eyes by the callous actions of others who were least expected to assail and inflame is when the true measures of manhood emerge.
Lest one need not forget that while others say all kind of rude and malicious lies about ones character, which was thought to not ever be required to deal with an onslaught of opposition that arrives seemingly to war against cherished character traits and that are seen to be personally valued and treasured is indeed reflective of the deeper things that Rudyard Kipling has etched out with his poetic waves of words.
A man might be well assured that there will be scorching trials and tribulations while living life daily if the measure of a man is looked at through his self made lenses of immaturity. Thus his course on his path will be experienced as rugged with no real solutions and rarely leading to any genuine measures of manhood if he continually rejects what sharpens the soul of man amidst even his fiercest storm.
In the nutshell, If indeed. I agree.
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