Kipling's poem "IF"

One of the best poem that I have ever read and appreciate a lot is none other than the words of Kipling. If you can understand what he was trying to say, you could have been one of the coolest person on planet earth. 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 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 all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath 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 distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling

将喜怒哀乐化为笔墨

在人生高高低低的起伏之中，经过那所谓的漫长路，坎坷途。我学到的无非是在言语之中学会方从自己。因为我深信，言，是发自内心的言，语，是藏在内心的语。这里是我中三，十五岁时写的一篇文章。它也是我曾经写过最好的其中一篇华语文章-------将喜怒哀乐化为笔墨。。。

能将自己的心情，自己的感受，一点一滴，完美地通过笔墨描绘而出并不是一件简单的事情。有些人，他们永远都办不到，或办得好。而那些能做得到这点的，他们都明白其中的价值，其中的可贵。。。

一个作家，或是一个喜爱写文章的人，区区一支毛笔，单单几滴墨，对他而言，没有比这更重要的东西不过。有了这些，他能把藏在心里头的心情，所思，所想，很潇洒的通过文字而表达出来。。。

临朝林越静，鸟鸣山更幽，好不容易来到屋后的小山坡，接着夕阳未了，让我好好写下一篇文章。我好落力地写，把一个字慢慢地刻画下来，人道“为人性僻耽佳句，语不惊人死不休。”该倒说得好，但我又试问谁人不“也思笔墨传千古，莫到仙人不爱名？”我把藏在心里的感想，全部都写在纸上。这便是文字的艺术。它能把看不见，摸不着的东西，也就是一个人变化无常的喜怒哀乐如云流水般描会而出。

“喜”，带有一片希望，乐中却藏有一股兴奋，气势如长江滚滚，落木箫箫，使人乐以忘忧，所谓“人逢喜事精神爽”, 其中自会。“怒”，有着百马奔腾之势，所以怒火中烧，如大海澎湃起浪，风起云涌，一发不可收拾。“哀” 给人脑海里刻下冷月无情，凄凉无比的心境，萧条冷清；悲中带愁，愁里藏伤，离愁则未语泪先流，伤悲则垂泪到天明。其味非要亲生体验方能尽知。“乐”一个多莫令人渴望，追求的感幻，凡人虽看不见，摸不着，但却能尝到它那一份带给人类的温暖，愉快。人言道“快乐似神仙。试问我们该多快乐方能如仙人一般？没人晓得，但知时心平静无忧，浑身自如，轻若鸿毛。。。。。。

写文章的艺术，笔墨的魔力，他能把千言万语，难以表达的事情“如清水出芙蓉，天然去雕饰”般清新自然地描绘出来，平凡的它包藏着无限的艺术，创造出一个一班人都无法办到的事情，那就是写；写出一个人的心曲，一个人千丝百班无可捉摸的思路情感，将喜怒哀乐化为笔墨，这就是写文章的至高水准。