IF... you can go through high school with out losing your mind

Blog topic suggestion:

 Should people be more like Brutus and try and be a Stoic? Is complete lack of emotions even possible?

Mission statement:

When I tried to come up with my own mission statement a poem kept coming up in my mind. No matter how hard I tried I could not find really anything much to add to it. Even if you don't care much for poems you should look it over. It is perhaps my favorite poem. Here it is. It is by Rudyard Kipling and is called 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 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 wornout 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!



Sorry I didn't come up with an original mission statement, but I just thought that this poem was incredibly better than I could have done trying to make a mission statement for myself.


As a side note I really must say that one part of Disney's mission statement really scares me: "Nurturing and promulgation of 'wholesome American values'" If some of the things which I have seen made by Disney are "wholesome American values" then... help!...