O anonymous Wanderer, I don't know if you'll ever read this, but if you do, you'll understand what it means...
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 all 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!
Oh btw, I have decided to change the url of my blog.. the next post onwards, the musings shall be available at http://rozzville.blogspot.com
@ Lanky.. I know it's not imaginative, and tell u what.. i dnt care.. ;P
13 comments:
nice read...
i hardly ever encounter poems.. or any other form of literature (as you all already know :P)...
but coming across nice bits and pieces here and there is always enjoyable...
Hmm..have read this poem before. Drives home some very fond memories.. This one's special to me for this was the first piece my uncle asked me to explain when i was in class8. I hadn't read it in class so the interpretation was like really mine.
I like these lines the best:
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
Cheers!
S.
@ Sobu
:) :)
missin u...
@ Saki
Hmm.. no such memories for me..never read great stuff in skl.. but then cbse sucked big time :|
and the poem itself is beautiful... :)
hey nice blog. 100 post pe congrates. i too made my 100 post recently. it feel grt. i like ur blog header. meantingful
@ Nidhi..
Thanks a ton.. :)
and yeah, Welcome to the Musings.. keep droppin in .. :)
Congratulations alien/rozz!
This poem is my anthem. It's every word tells me to remain unconquered.
Didnt read your blog for a long time
Btw is the change in blog address a reflection of change in your own outlook?
@ Anon
:)
The change in blog address was due.. the earlier url was just ther coz hadnt been able to think of sumthng while creating a blog.. :P
the change in the nick though reflects the changes.. :)
p.s. having changed the url, i later realized, u might not be able to access the blog, now that u have, i wonder who u r.. sumbdy who knows me? or was it just some googling that got u here.. anyways.. i know better than to ask.. so would just wonder.. :)
@ rozz
i wonder who u r.. sumbdy who knows me? or was it just some googling that got u here.. anyways.. i know better than to ask.
How does it matter? Nameless and changeless I wander and will continue so.
And ah! google is such a thing!! :)
btw I cud vaguely smile wen I read this poem on ur blog.
I went thru ur profile and read the list of ur fav books. (Books do tell u much abt the person who reads them).
Have u finished "The Fountainhead"? If you have, could u pls post a line on it. I hav known very few people who actually understand it. Half of the readers think it's an unrealistic gibberish; most of the other half parade into calling themselves selfish proudly without comprehending the beauty of Ayn's words which transcend the prevailing reasons of ordinary man.
Sadly, hardly 10 percent understand objectivity.
@ Anon
I would go a step further, and attempt to write a review of The Fountainhead... though i must confess, i would have to read it once again to do it, read the book ages ago...
though i would say this now.. i see The Fountainhead as a dedication, a dedication to man's supremacy..a dedication to his potential and to his happiness...
And i agree, most of the readers don't get Ayn Rand.. they just put it up coz it looks good.. i won't be naive and say that i get it completely, and well, you'll soon know how much i get it.. :)
@Rozz
hmm. I actually knew the answer thru ur other posts, in particular the latest one "Just me".
:)
Whenever u hav time for heavier stuff than Fountainhead, read Atlas Shrugged; it will also clear your doubts you might hav with her philosophy.
@ Anon
hmm.. sure will give it a try.. :)
btw updated my books.. realized hadn't done it in a long time... vaise wat r ur favs?
:)
i hav a long list of books; i mostly like contemplative stuff which has hues of intricacies of life, universe and evrything else besides.
This includes both fiction and non fiction.
Long ago I used to take interest in Archer and Sheldons, now I find them too predictable and dont like sheldon anymore.
The I matured and read heavy stuffs.
I hav always fallen for classics. Mark Twain, Geraldine Brooks, Forster and Margaret Mitchell top the list.
Harper Lee is good.
Ayn Rand has been most poignant and impressive among all philosophical works.
And yeah being frm bombay, I loved Shantaram. If u plan a trip, do visit Colaba street. And there u will find all the pirated books u never cud elsewhere, even the ones that r banned....lol (I dont support piracy though).
Hav been reading many autobiographies lately.
Presently reading "My Experiments with Truth". Cant comment on it till I finish it.
I read Eco stuff to. Toyota way, World is Flat, Fortune under the Pyramid are some favs.
There are so many books and I think mentioning even few of them will be unfair on parts of ones I wont.
Books add a new dimension to ones life and I cannot stop discussing some, particularly Rand. She just bowled me over.
I'll put some of my fav lines frm her works for u (i hope u wont mind):-
1.) Progress depends entirely on an "unreasonable man".
2.) A true, pure love is always "conditional". It is as conditional as the fact that we exist.
3.) Highest moral purpose of a man's life is fulfillment of his goals. And he, the one who has no goals is the most corrupt of all.
4.)And here, over the portals of my fort,
I shall cut in the stone the word which is
to be my beacon and my banner. The word
which will not die, should we all perish in
battle. The word which can never die on
this earth, for it is the heart of it and the
meaning and the glory.
The sacred word:
EGO
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I am sorry for a long comment/post here. But I cant help. The reader in me loves to bolt it out, often. :-))))
you loved Shnataram coz u r from bombay, and it made me fall in love with bombay.. ever since i have been wanting to visit the city.. and if things work out, i might get a job there too! :)
the love with bombay continues and am reading the maximum city now..
colaba street.. hmm.. u bet i'll be there! :)
and the lines u posted were simply fab.. specially the Ego one..
and don worry about the length of the comments.. the longer the bettwr i wud say.. :)
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