IF...?????????

After a nice full and heavy meal on Ugadi day,that afternoon i happened to this good telugu movie called "Happy Days" on Tv.I have seen this movie several times before.....n i was like each time i see it...i think ....is this movie trying to remind me of something ?.......N then there was the answer Yes.....It reminds me of something....so what is it...

For those of u who didnt see the movie It is about a few friends n their life in an Engineering college.....Apart from this what caught my attention was a poem which one of the friends had to byheart n recite it back inorder to impress a English Lecturer.......It was this that caught my attention...I have heard it somewhere.....Where ? Where did i first hear it .....??

Any Guesses?????

Till my 8th standard i studied in a catholic school St.Josephs in vizag ,It had a ICSE syllabus n from 7th or 8th std we had a book on poems it was called "Flights Of Fantasy".....n Two poems that made a place in my mind were IF---Rudyard Kipling n Daffodils-Williams Wordsworth.

Two very good poets i am found of.

IF---??????

No matter what ever we do in our daily lifes,everything starts with a If....What if i do this? What if i do That? What if my boss doesnt like it? What if this will happen? etc etc etc.......They are so many if's and but's in our life.....thats because man is a social being...we need to socialise with people wherever we are...So it's not always What we like to do..its sometimes What we can do for others...

Oh my god thats a lot a Philosophy from a girl of my age.......but thats ok....it did one good thing ,it reminded me of my school days...While in school i was staying in a hostel and i can say i had the best time in life with all my friends..We were a bunch of naughty friends...

IF---Rudyard Kipling

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 impostors 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 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!

There is a lot to learn from this poem,it tells us how we should be . Its one encourageing poem we can look at when we lose anything....

If" illustrates the practice of self-confidence and expresses that, in being confident, the reader must have the courage to face unpopularity and disagreement.It helps to find a balance between private ideals and public action, warning against making the machinations of the mind an end in itself. In other words, to be a leader an individual must be able to put private dreams and philosophies to public action.

It tells us how a individual should regard both profit and loss, neither of which is permanent.It shows that model leadership requires action that is based on a worldview that is complex, multifaceted, and ultimately inclusive.

It tells people to work against favoritism and work toward regarding men with equality.By emulating the characteristics of a model leader, an individual can achieve "manhood." That's how all of us should be .