dont lose your head

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'tdeal 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 thosetwo 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 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 breathe 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!

siapa ingat kita belajar ni masa sekolah menengah rendah.. aku pun lupa apa summary dia, hehe, maybe nasihat utk berpekertian baik. reminder to stay grounded (too grounded?) and calm, and hopefully wise all at the same time.. aku paling suka sentence yang underlined tu.. at 26 years old, no longer can i count my friends using both hands and feet(foot?) fingers.  i have been to many communities.. add all the clients and strangers tah jumpa mane2 tah lagi. oi, pening lah nanti nak buat list ajak gi kenduri. ok, tak fokus, haha. indeed, i felt lucky that i selalu terbukak hati untuk rajin keluar, or borak-borak (albeit just sikit2 and if i may add, awkwardly, hehe). kenduri/fb/friendster saves the humiliation of being labelled as penyombong.. from all the words yang aneh-aneh di atas, i'd love to share this post by shaliza which i think agak relevan dengan i) perbualan rindu merindu naga kat gmail, and ii) i aktif balik kat facebook after 15days of absence (log-in sebab aku nak balas balik kutuk mengutuk 5 penjuru bwtn yuli-dila-leen-zuey-i.. haha i miss them! probably tu je sebab aku on fb balik) .....

Friends do come and go but you won’t be getting much if you don’t make an effort to ask them to stay - shaliza

i have been writing crap here. my words are hardly beautiful sebab i have a hard time to express my deepest feeling, and also, i have short attention span. (or maybe penulisan aku tak cukup 'beautiful', sebab jiwa tak 'beautiful' = tak artistik? DAMN!)