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"IF"

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can deep your head when all about you

Are loosing theirs and blaming it on 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 aims,

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!

I was thinking today and this poem came to me, I had to go through "My Special Box of Words."  She was still there.  In finding self and making decisions - we have to know all the "IF’s.  I have learned along the way that I need to to take a breath, let my enter spirit completely take over and in the end, things just seem to fall into place.   So I tell those who will  liston, find a quite place, you bedroom, porch, the woods, the beach.  Sit and listen to mostly quiet.  You’ll hear nature, but you are also charging up you sprit.  Taking the time to find out if something is worth it?  I have just recenty learned something, when you always put others ahead of your self it is an unsellfish acts.  I believe when you can live all of your life giving instead of taking, we have worked our way to complete oneness with mind, body and sou!  I am glad that I have gotten to the very comfortable me of where I am...RaeDi