Friday, August 19, 2005

PoEm...

Argh! Freaking migraine... killing me... Always have it... comes to "visit" every few days once or so... sometimes so bad that it even makes me puke (or want to)...

Anyhoo... I recently read a novel and stumbled upon a poem which I find really meaningful and so I decided I'll be all generous and share it with you guys... hope that you will enjoy it as much as I do and in the meantime learn something from it too...


"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,
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 you turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will to say to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - not lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If all you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that is in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!


This poem is telling you to always be yourself, have your feet firm on the ground, always be optimistic, believe in yourself... no matter what others say or think. Very very meaningful... Many people cannot do this... including myself...


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Below, is an e-mail my friend has sent to me... It is so true as well... Check out the pic... it's a couple kissing... pretty clever aye? Took me a long time form the picture in here so you guys can see it... cos the picture somehow became defected and unviewable (is there such word?) when transfered into here... It's still a bit cacat-ed la... but just as long as you can make out the picture, can? Anyways, the most important part of this post is the message below... not the how ugly the picture turned out cos of my erm, bad editing... bluekss! >_<
[hint: someone pleasssse compliment me that I did a great job with the picture... *bambi eyes*]


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Never say I Love You
If you don't really care

Never talk of feelings
If they aren't really there

Never hold my hand
If you mean to break my heart

Never say forever
If you ever plan to part

Never look into my eyes
If you are telling me a lie

Never say hello
If you think you'll say goodbye

Never say that I'm THE one
If you dream of more than me

Never lock up my heart
If you don't have the key



Anyways, hope you all enjoyed and learnt something from these two postings... Have a nice life... Will post some stuff later on!


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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was made to answer questions on that poem before in school. Remember English literature??? Argh!!!

=nel= said...

S-Kay : hahaha! But question answering aside, this poem IS really nice huh? =)

I forgot what was my English Lit poem already... LoL...

But I remember the novel was "The Pearl" though... Heh...

Sarah said...

Hey, Sarah here. I love how real you are but I have a question... That poem, it's cool and expresses something deep, but what good is it to trust in yourself?? Can we control anything beyond day to day decisions? Can we control the weather, when we get sick, when we die? What good is to trust in ourselves? We're screwed up, we need help. This world's a disaster. Why? I believe there is an answer! My thoughts are at www.tribaladventure.blogspot.com

Keep being honest! Cya! :)

=nel= said...

Sarah : Hey, glad u like my blog. I will carry on being honest and crystal clear... cos Im the what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) kinda person... I prefer honesty and truth rather than lying or faking things just to please someone... Truth hurts... but so what? Its better than temporary happiness of lies... right? =)

Anyway, about trusting yourself... True, we cannot control some things that goes on, like the weather and when we die, but we definitely have control of when we get sick! Taking care of ur health, eating healthily, enough liquids, exercising, etc... it makes ur body stronger. Yea?

Trusting ourselves... it just goes to tell u that you must always have faith in urself and be strong cos there'll always be someone or something out there that will try and take u down and make u feel less worthy than u actually are... But if u trust urself n be strong, those will merely be speedbumps in ur life... if u dun, it may turn into the blackhole that sucks u in n ruins u...

I believe we're screw ups (yes, including me) cos we made ourselves so... I lost the happy, cheerful me after a lot of traumas and shit that happened (as I think u can see in my posts)... I lost my self-esteem and confidence... But I have the will to want to fight back... I hope u do too... Cos there are lots more people out there who r less fortunate than us...

Keep visiting my blog and I'll visit urs soon... Take care =)