tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174413782011-07-15T06:13:37.898+05:30Humour, Rantings, Concerns, ad infinitum. Cherishing life's little gifts as greatest treasures!Key Smashernoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17441378.post-1136014163582570892005-12-31T12:57:00.000+05:302005-12-31T12:59:23.596+05:30<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Well, the debate of whether to contribute or not was being conducted within myself was never over… I used to be the guy, who used to do it, but sometime back when the debate started, I never did give alms, as the debate was never won conclusively!<br /><br />What do you say smashedkey? Should we or shouldn't we? Or is it an opinion of one and does not depend on whether others do it or not?<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17441378-113601416358257089?l=pomtom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Key Smashernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17441378.post-1128435763955267692005-10-04T19:49:00.000+05:302005-10-04T19:56:23.596+05:30<div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span>Kicking off with this wonderful poem from Rudyard Kipling,<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div> <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[IF]</span></span><br /><br /><br />If you can keep your head when all about you<br />Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,<br />If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you<br />But make allowance for their doubting too,<br />If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br />Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,<br />Or being hated, don't give way to hating,<br />And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:<br /><br />If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,<br />If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;<br />If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster<br />And treat those two impostors just the same;<br />If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken<br />Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<br />Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,<br />And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:<br /><br />If you can make one heap of all your winnings<br />And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<br />And lose, and start again at your beginnings<br />And never breath a word about your loss;<br />If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br />To serve your turn long after they are gone,<br />And so hold on when there is nothing in you<br />Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"<br /><br />If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<br />Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,<br />If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;<br />If all men count with you, but none too much,<br />If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br />With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,<br />Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<br />And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17441378-112843576395526769?l=pomtom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Key Smashernoreply@blogger.com0