We are often given poems to read as children by different people in our lives\u00a0– teachers, parents, grandparents. They share these poems usually because they loved the poem themselves\u00a0and want us to experience the same. One particular poem that stays with me was given to me by my father on a bookmark.<\/p>\n
It is a coming of age poem but the message can still be applied in adult life when times are tough or stressful. I hope by sharing it with you, it will stick with you too and help when you have\u00a0difficulties. The poem is If<\/em> by Rudyard Kipling written in 1895.<\/p>\n If-<\/strong> If you can keep your head when all about you If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, If you can dream\u2014and not make dreams your master; If you can bear to hear the truth you\u2019ve spoken If you can make one heap of all your winnings If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, If you can fill the unforgiving minute We are often given poems to read as children by different people in our lives\u00a0– teachers, parents, grandparents. They share these poems usually because they loved the poem themselves\u00a0and want us to experience the same. One particular poem that stays with me was given to me by my father on a bookmark. It is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12371,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534\/revisions\/12371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy\u00a0Rudyard Kipling<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,
\nIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
\nBut make allowance for their doubting too;<\/p>\n
\nOr being lied about, don\u2019t deal in lies,
\nOr being hated, don\u2019t give way to hating,
\nAnd yet don\u2019t look too good, nor talk too wise:<\/p>\n
\nIf you can think\u2014and not make thoughts your aim;
\nIf you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
\nAnd treat those two impostors just the same;<\/p>\n
\nTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
\nOr watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
\nAnd stoop and build \u2019em up with worn-out tools:<\/p>\n
\nAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
\nAnd lose, and start again at your beginnings
\nAnd never breathe a word about your loss;<\/p>\n
\nTo serve your turn long after they are gone,
\nAnd so hold on when there is nothing in you
\nExcept the Will which says to them: \u2018Hold on!\u2019<\/p>\n
\nOr walk with Kings\u2014nor lose the common touch,
\nIf neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
\nIf all men count with you, but none too much;<\/p>\n
\nWith sixty seconds\u2019 worth of distance run,
\nYours is the Earth and everything that\u2019s in it,
\nAnd\u2014which is more\u2014you\u2019ll be a Man, my son!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"