? Rudyard Kipling
If people around you attack you irrationally, you can still keep calm.
If people are suspicious of you, you can still be confident as usual and think their suspicions are excusable;
If you are willing to wait patiently,
If you are slandered but don't answer blows with blows,
If you are hated but don't return evil for evil;
neither pretentious nor cocky;
If you have a dream, but you are not dominated by it;
If you are thoughtful and not possessed;
If you face victory and disaster calmly, you are open-minded about the illusory victory or defeat.
If you can stand such a rogue, distort your truth and deceive stupid people,
or watch your hard-working career collapse, you can still climb again with humiliation and down-to-earth attitude;
If you dare to put all your victories in one basket for a higher goal,
In the face of loss, you are determined to start all over again without mentioning your own losses;
If people have already left you, you can still hold your ground and strive for the pioneer.
There is nothing on you, only the will is shouting "Resist";
If you talk to civilians without changing your modesty,
Or walk with princes without showing flattery;
If neither friend nor foe can harm you;
If people trust you but don't rely too much;
If you can cherish time like gold and make use of every minute that can't be recovered;
Then, your cultivation will be as broad as heaven and earth, and you will have your own world.
More importantly, my son, you have become a truly indomitable spirit!
If——by Joseph Rudyard Kiping
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 man 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 away to hating,
And yet don’t look too good,nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make drames your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters 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 diseance run---
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And---which is more---you’ll be a Man,my son!
This poem If is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning English poet, which entrusts his Dundun instruction to his 12-year-old son.
This poem for teenagers involves all aspects of being a man from the horizontal, and can run through a person's life journey from the vertical.
it is not only related to a person's inner cultivation, noble virtues such as tolerance, integrity and truth, but also covers the self-confidence, perseverance, endurance, determination and courage that a successful and outstanding person should have, as well as the responsibility, persistence, cherish time, self-restraint, mind and discretion in getting along with others.
It can be said that this poem covers almost all the goodness and virtues, scales and criteria of a person. Not to mention being a child, I'm afraid it's more or less difficult for us as adults to be so comprehensive.
but I believe that the poet will do it nine times out of ten. Otherwise, how can he use this as a criterion to teach his son? Such extensive cultivation is the poet's ardent hope for his son. And we, of course, are also looking forward to the success of our children and the success of our women.
how to educate children well is a problem that every parent must face, and in the process, everyone has encountered or is worried about various endless troubles.
In our hearts, we either want our children to be kind and upright; Or hope that he will become a brave person and a strong person; Or hope that he will become an outstanding person and a successful person; Wait a minute. In a word, we all expect our children to live an open and happy life.
It's difficult to cover all aspects of life in our daily life. Therefore, we might as well take this poem as the criterion for educating children.
Its language is firm and euphemistic, deeply rooted in people's hearts and persuasive. Most importantly, it is not only helpful for us to teach children, but also plays a good role in urging adults at all times, killing two birds with one stone and benefiting a lot.