Below are two poems I find it meaningful..."Desiderata" is the poem i saw in TPJC magazine...the other poem "IF" is a poem given us (4e1) by Mr Chew on the graduation day but i decided to type it here...DesiderataYou are a child of the universeno less than the trees and the stars;You have a right to be here.If you compare yourself with others,you may become vain and bitter;for always there will be greater and lesser personsthan yourself.Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.Beyond a wholesome discipline,be gentle with yourselfIf by Rudyard KiplingIf 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 of 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, not 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 impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the thrut you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fool,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken
And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools;
If you can make heap of all your winnings
And risk it ob one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And son hold on when there is nothing in you
Ecept 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 can count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of the distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!
:D Thursday, July 05, 2007
