30th July 2014: Ten Things You Need To Know This Morning

By Nwasante Khasiani (Writer) on July 30, 2014

Today, why don’t we start things a little differently. Today, I want to start with a mantra that has been reverberating within me in the recent past:

If you can keep your head when all about you, are losing theirs& 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& 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& 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 &build ’em up with worn tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on a turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, &start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss

If you can force your heart &nerve &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 you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth &everything that’s in it,
And -which is more- you’ll be a man, my son! -Rudyard Kipling

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