today, my english teacher,Mr.Malek taught us the poem named - IF.i love this poem a lot. since Kumar ( my tuition english teacher ) has discuss this with us, i feel that..i really got to learn the moral values from this poem :) but, i haven't -.- i hope i will learn it soon. lols. here is the poem :) i love it so much. and today's english period is the 1st time of english period that I'm behaving so active. haha.
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 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 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!' * i think i got to learn this to improve my locking + poppin skill :(
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!
I've highlighted those sentences that i feel that, it's really true and i got to learn the moral value. Besides that, when Mr.Malek discuss the sentence - Neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you. Maybe is because i nod my head damn obvious or what ~ haha. he asked me, am i experience that before, which means have i experienced hurt by loving friends before. lols. i think teacher forgot the essay that i wrote for the mid-term examination. hmmm, ya, definitely foes will hurt us ~ but friends. why should friends hurt us? teacher explained so : the people that we loved the most is the people that we hurt the most. hmmm, actually i don't really agree with it. and those example that he gave it's quite...
