If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you...
Then continue reading the rest of this Poem by Rudyard Kipling
An old classic seems relevant in our turbulent corona times.
“If this then that” was a computer command and also a website, but here it is the an old poem by an old hand. If you read this poem, will you complete the rest of “then that” part of the command?
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 impostors 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 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 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!
- By Rudyard Kiplinghttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---
If we only knew the things we know now at a different point in time it would be so easy and convenient to make good favorable decisions, but unfortunately or perhaps for our best we can only exercise that perspective in hindsight.
How to know without the struggles and the failures and the pain? Perhaps those struggles and the failures and the pain was the point of the exercise and the only way to truly appreciate the struggles and the failures and the pain, was to go through the the struggles and the failures and the pain, you see how cyclic the entire process was?
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
“If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you…” then you are more than half way home and big poppa is waiting for you in the skies above with open arms.
Take Care of Yourself. Remember on planes they always tell you put the mask on first, before helping others. Therefore, Take Care of Yourself First and then do what is in your control, and then leave the rest to the universe to solve.
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