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In times of economy downturn

Clare started this conversation
Aug 23, 2010

There are some people meant to be a head of a business, and some people who are meant to be helpers of a business.  I think I fall in the latter category.

 

I wont tell you the details of this business, because I dont yet know where this business I am helping will lead to.  I am confident however, that once this business( its private funded) gets its head above water, then you all will know about it.  We will make it. ,Its not a question of IF but When'=============

One of my favorite poems was written by Rudyard Kipling. I have lived my life by it. The title of the poem is If.  I cant tell you word for word ver batem  what it says, but in a nutshell the poem goes like this.==================

If you can keep your wits about you when all other people are losing theirs

If you can lose everything you have ever had and then start up again,

If you can treat kings and paupers both  the same

( I have forgotten the rest of the poem, but you get the picture)

Then my son, you have become a man

(this was written before women's lib.  I am sure Mr Kipling would have said in a footnote, My daughter, you have become a woman.)

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When I get discouraged, I think of this poem. this poem helps me to "pick myself up, dust myself off, and start again.

+++++++==Life can be good, as long as you dont lose sight of your goal.

I had a goal, many years ago, and I never lost hope.  Now I am living my dream.  You too can live yours.  Just keep the Faith, Pray, and ask continually of the guidance by He  who made us all. 

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Clare
Aug 24, 2010
 in response to whoknew...   thank you for printing this in its entireity.  I reread the poem, and enjoyed it just as I have many times.  If we ( the country)all can just hold on, as mr Kipling said, I know we will see a better tomorrow.
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Anonymous
Aug 23, 2010

Amazing - I think everyone could benefit from this! thanks for sharing!

Here is the poem in its entirety: 

If

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!

 

 

 

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