Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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 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!

What's been happening?

Life has been quiet all over the place lately. Lots of comings and goings. Where to start?

Well, firstly, I'm going to visit my brother in London towards the end of June. I am really looking forward to it. I've missed travelling abroad. It's something that if I had the money I would want to do 3-4 times a year. Anyway, going to be there for 10 days and hoping to go visit all the places I went to when I was there 9 years ago. And hoping to take a ton of photo's which I'll post the good ones when I get back in July.

This week was my 3 month anniversary (or Tuesday, which ever you prefer) with a really amazing guy. Things seem to be going really well. I enjoy just being around him and being there when he interacts with other people. It's a strange feeling, for the first time I feel like I belong in a relationship as opposed to trying to force a relationship to happen.

I'm busy doing a course at the moment, which seems to be taking up the majority of my time. It's pretty frustrating, the course isn't very well put together and the assignments are almost by-the-by. Nothing is definite. Alas, I must trudge on until October.

I've also very recently started a lifestyle blog called The Lifestyle Hound which pretty much covers things that I am interested and want to teach others about. Check it out if you have time.





When I think of it, life is pretty awesome at the moment. It doesn't always feel like it admittedly. I think the course stress is a bit overwhelming sometimes, but I'll get through it.

Oh, and I've started Yoga again :D