My Mood Savior..

 

These days I felt so much discouraged and sad, and because it was my close friend who hurt me, I found almost nothing works to make feel better..

And today, I found this poem.. I was reading football news and as weird as it sounds, Yes, I found a really great poem inside football news article.. kekeke..

And in an instant after I read this poem, I actually can smile again.. A line said "if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you," I can relate with it very much and somehow, I felt encouraged again..

I'm so in love with this poem and I think I want to share this with you.. This is "If" by Rudyard Kipling..

 


If—
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 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!
 

 

 

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clumsyblue
#1
You can find this kind of poem in a football news..? O.o
Stay strong, Shinta.. And thanks for sharing~^^
Izzymon
#2
"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;"
it's the real courage of a human for me... not everyone can do it but that's why it's so precious... being never afraid to start again... that's what i really want to b n is trying to b... this poem makes me think a lot... at the same time strangely i feel kinda relieved n peaceful... thz for sharing shinta-nim! :D
Manunulat
#3
Himnae... :D
Pateukie
#4
I read it already and it is so encouraging! I feel a lot better after reading this. Thanks for sharing Shinta~ <3