This is a sharing of the poem by Rudyard Kipling.It was of course written many years before of sensitivity to gender equality so one must translate all reference to man, men, and son, to encompass females also. At least, that is how I am interpreting it today. Since it is several verses long, I will only do one at a time……so-o-o stay tuned.
IF
by 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: