If
- elbielm
- Mar 27
- 2 min read
Antwan Eady is a children's book author and a former Culturist Union visitor turned friend. His work reminds you what it feels like to be small and full of wonderđź’«
A few years ago, he sent me a message:
Read the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling when you have a chance. I think it'll resonate with you.
The screenshot I took of the poem popped up in my photo memories as I was drafting this week's post. I thought: maybe it'll resonate with you, too.
The world can be a wild wild place. Sometimes more chaotic inside than out.
But there are people who see you, reach for you, and remind you who you are when you forget.
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.✨ If
by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about youAre 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 DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted 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 winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept 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 minuteWith 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!
See you next week. 🥂
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