“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!

And 100 years later, a Son of that calibre writes on similar dimensions – making it humanly attainable – if only we think about it – and do it.

Lovely piece of work Dr. Mani.

Rudyard Kipling’s (1865-1936) inspirational poem ‘If’ first appeared in his collection ‘Rewards and Fairies’ in 1909.

I would like to add, what if you spent the first week of 2010 saying thank you to everyone around you and for everything in your life? What if you spent just one day in January, 2010 saying thank you to your spouse, your child, your neighbor, your friend, your co-worker, your pets, your garden, your plants, your breath, your heart?