When I was around 18 years old, I ran across the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. It really rang a bell for me and it has stuck with me ever since. At times, certain lines seemed to sum up whatever difficulty I was facing at the time. From the very first line —
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…”
“…If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools…”
“If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you…”
A few days ago, I ran across this video, which is an interesting interpretation of one of my favorite poems.
Another Beautiful Day in Paradise! 