If 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 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 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
wornout tools;
If you can make 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
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 friends can hurt you;
If all men count with 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 in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man
my son!
I just wanted this somewhere close at hand anytime for easy consultation.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Day the First
And so I have decided to write something a little further away from the realm of Science. This may end up more of a forum for my ideas and thoughts than anything vaguely useful - yet another one!
It is the first of November. Change is on its way again as I plan to move home. That unquiet, unsettling feeling has rested itself in my upper abdomen and no amount of healthy food or stress-free activites seems to alleviate. I wonder what else plagues my mind.
Relationships are tricky things, especially long standing ones. The longer someone has known you, the less likely they accept changes that happen in you. Parents, for example, are notoriously difficult to convince that the changes that continue to appear in your life are normal, and fine. And even if those changes are not fine, they are normal. What happens when your sense of humour no longer matches theirs? when your interests don't appeal to their sense of what's important; when conversation stagnates easily?
A rift forms, and is widened by misunderstandings. Offence is taken easily on both sides. Past behavour forms the model of expectation for the present and future - and this model doesn;t always fit correctly when changes have occured. But families love no matter what, and bridges are built and rifts diminish.
But what about the relationships with people you have chosen? Friends, lovers? Is change what causes so many marraiges to break down?
It's almost a rhetorical question.
Nevertheless, I love change, however it knots up my stomach and makes me moody. So I think the key is to learn to accept it and go with it. If you can find someone who adapts to change with you, then you have probably found something worth keeping.
It is the first of November. Change is on its way again as I plan to move home. That unquiet, unsettling feeling has rested itself in my upper abdomen and no amount of healthy food or stress-free activites seems to alleviate. I wonder what else plagues my mind.
Relationships are tricky things, especially long standing ones. The longer someone has known you, the less likely they accept changes that happen in you. Parents, for example, are notoriously difficult to convince that the changes that continue to appear in your life are normal, and fine. And even if those changes are not fine, they are normal. What happens when your sense of humour no longer matches theirs? when your interests don't appeal to their sense of what's important; when conversation stagnates easily?
A rift forms, and is widened by misunderstandings. Offence is taken easily on both sides. Past behavour forms the model of expectation for the present and future - and this model doesn;t always fit correctly when changes have occured. But families love no matter what, and bridges are built and rifts diminish.
But what about the relationships with people you have chosen? Friends, lovers? Is change what causes so many marraiges to break down?
It's almost a rhetorical question.
Nevertheless, I love change, however it knots up my stomach and makes me moody. So I think the key is to learn to accept it and go with it. If you can find someone who adapts to change with you, then you have probably found something worth keeping.
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