Evolution of Love 2

MANHOOD

Extracts from Rudyard Kipling; IF : A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON : ....

" 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 IMPOSTORS Just The Same;

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 "

And That - is what being a MAN is all about.............. WHAT SAY ???