If you can keep your head when all about you,
are losing theirs, and blaming it on you:
If you can trust your self when all men doubt you,
but make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
or being lied about, and dont deal in lies;
Or being hated, dont 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,
teisted by knaves to make a trap fo fools:
or watch the things you gave your life tobroken,
and stoop and build`en up with worn out tools.
If you canmake 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,
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 you virtue,
or walk with kings nor lose the common
touch;
If neither foes nor loving freinds can hurt you,
if all men can count on 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 on it
and which is more, you`ll be a man my son!!!
Comments
by Daniel S. Moskowitz
Sometimes,
People will tell me
That I am
"Intellectualizing".
However,
By using my Intellect,
Am I commiting an Offense against God?
Or are these Critics only Criticizing me
Because they are too stupid
Or too ill-informed
To Know what I'm talking about?
They tell me
A particular subject
Is "irrelevant"
To the Conversation,
But WHO
Or WHAT
Gave them the AUTHORITY
And the POWER
To determine
Which Subjects
Are "relevant"
And which subjects
Are "irrelevant"?
They will tell me that
"Thinking"
Is a way of AVOIDING
My emotions,
But, has any neuroanatomist
Ever been able to Find
A "Zone of Seperation"
Between Thoughts
And Feelings?
They tell me
That I am "intellectualizing"
Because the Subject I am Discussing
Cause them to feel UNCOMFORTABLE.
However, rather than SAYING.
"I feel uncomfortable when you discuss the Politics of the Middle East,"
For example,
They just tell me to
"Stop intellectualizing!"
As if THINKING
Is SINFUL
If Those who constantly criticize me
Believe that THINKING is a SIN,
It is obvious what Religion THEY believe in.
It is the Cult of the Golden Calf,
Of Course.
rudyard kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you,
are losing theirs, and blaming it on you:
If you can trust your self when all men doubt you,
but make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
or being lied about, and dont deal in lies;
Or being hated, dont 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,
teisted by knaves to make a trap fo fools:
or watch the things you gave your life tobroken,
and stoop and build`en up with worn out tools.
If you canmake 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,
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 you virtue,
or walk with kings nor lose the common
touch;
If neither foes nor loving freinds can hurt you,
if all men can count on 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 on it
and which is more, you`ll be a man my son!!!