A good poem for my current place.

[caitykitola]

Rudyard Kipling
If

If

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

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[dogdogdogdog]

this has been one of my favorite poems for the last ten years.

i always have a handwritten copy of it hanging in my studio.

<3 kipling. (i almost always include the note that he was told he lacked the academic ability for oxford and became the first english language writer to receive the nobel prize. he's still the youngest recipient.)

[caitykitola]

Yeah, I looooove this poem, and it's keeping my spirits up during job searching and the guy I'm interested in removing himself from the dating pool.