If

今天分享一篇鲁德亚德-吉卜林的短篇诗歌《如果》

如果你能保持冷静，当你身边的人们

都变得疯狂的纷纷指责你

如果你能相信自己，当所有人怀疑你，

但且让他们怀疑去吧

如果你遭等待，却不因等待而疲倦，

或者遭受欺骗，却不用谎言回敬，

或者遭到憎恨，却不用憎恨反击，

能够不得意忘形，也能够不巧言令色，

如果你能与凡人交谈，且彬彬有礼，

或与国王同行，而不奴颜婢膝，

如果仇敌和密友都无法伤害你，

如果你在乎每个人，但不会缺了谁就不行，

如果你在想发泄愤怒的那一分钟，

去进行了六十秒的跑步，

大地以及大地上的万物都将属于你，

而更重要的的是你将是真正的男人，我的孩子！

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这是吉卜林写给当时只有12岁儿子的一首励志诗，也是迈克尔-杰克逊的墓志铭。这首诗教会了人们很多做人的原则。能体会到他对儿子的爱，他想让他儿子拥有一个自由独立的灵魂，让自己儿子保持一颗赤子之心。赤子不知道什么是孤独，赤子会创造一个属于他的世界，这个世界里会有许多心灵相通的朋友。下面把英文原文附后面。

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If 

By Joseph Rudyard Kipling 

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 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 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!