Mental Strength
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."
- If, Rudyard Kipling
At times we have to stop focusing on what we see, what we hear or what to say; and instead just turn our focus inwards. Sometimes the mind chatters aimlessly, sometimes it's silent. Sometimes in the midst of joy, someone feels pain. Someone in the midst of pain may feel calmness. I'm in the process of my journey in freeing my mind of unnecessary worries about the past and future; rather to concentrate on the moment and make the best of it.
I have discovered this once before, but yet I forgot, only to rediscover it today. Truly, the Buddha's enlightenment is a thousand-fold harder than this, and makes it all the more marvellous.
"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!"
- (ibid)
Read: Rudyard Kipling's If
Time is Right
Looking Back at Campus Life
4 comments:
i remember this poem. learned it in what, form 3-4?
Terri read it out too during the oral practice.
I like the last stanza best, esp with these lines:
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!
Kipling eh? He has some better ones, although this is a favourite.
Since you're in a poetic mood today and being so kind in my post (lol), I dedicate to you 'If Strangers Meet' by EE Cummings.
I'm too lazy to search the poem for you. Heheh. Enjoy! :)
the form 4 poem!
that is an awesome poem! btw, yeah try to feel now and worry later. you can do it!
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