Hi don't have much to blog about today, but had a amazing English lesson today. Mrs Lim gave us a poem by Rudyard Kipling that i think is really inspiring. I hope you'll will learn and enjoy it as much as i do.
"If" by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blamingit 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 be lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give wy to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
If you can dream - and not mak dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoguhts your aim;
If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters 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 all on one tur of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your begginings
And never breath 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 fiends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the inforgiving 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 know its very lengthy but if you really read it and understand the true meaning of the poem and apply it to your life, you'll be one hell of a great guy
