"IF..."

This following poem named IF, is influenced by Kipling's work of the same title and is similar not only titular manner...the themes are generated by my own fascination with conditional comparisions as a route to wisdom, a similar project that Kipling was concerned about in his famous poem IF.

If you cannot avoid fear, confront the courage to neutralize it.

If you cannot be loved, be respected. if you cannot be understood, be honoured and honourable.

If you cannot escape, confront what limits you. If you cannot be creative, be productive. If you cannot be innovative be instructional to those who are.

If you cannot serve others justly, serve your own evolution justly.

If you cannot serve your own evolution justly, seek God.

If you cannot seek God, seek common sense and worldly wisdom.

If you cannot serve common sense and worldly wisdom, serve Justice through practical compassion for all deserving.

If you fall from grace, build up human excellence.

If you fail at war, succeed at love. If you conquer your passions, conquer all but your passion for creativity.

If you misunderstand others, learn to estimate other's intentions over time accurately.

If you can relate your intentions to your aspirations help others to do the same.

If you cannot inspire others, generate the expression that sets an example that eventually will, by setting the right example.

If you are too deeply political and affected by the futility of the world's negative approach, hold everything in reasonable achievable standards for tactical and gradual improvement and progress.

IF you can adopt a new way of seeing the world, do so with a reverence for the good ways that preserve old traditions and creative older ways of seeing some aspects of the world.

If you want a revolution, live it daily, if you want health, adopt it gradually and without fanaticism.

If you want connection, demand it from yourself towards others, not from others towards yourself. If you need a sense of purpose inherit a good nature from your conscience.

If you cannot develop your conscience, be amongst inspiring people who are a good example of humanity who can help you to do so.

If you cannot believe in yourself, attract friends who can help you to do so.

If you are around people who are hyper-critical to no benefit to you who are and self neglectful or irresponsible in profound ways, gravitate away from them before they corrupt your spirit.

If your spirit is already bankrupt from the eventual harms brought about by selecting the wrong crowd to be around, use prayer or power from a higher power and/or the generation of optimism to repair your judgment in order to direct yourself to the correct influences.

If you cannot be influenced by those of benefit to your imagination, be influenced by those of benefit to your financially.

If you cannot be influenced by those of a benefit to your financially be influenced by those who can replenish your sense of self worth. If you cannot be influenced by those who make you feel worthy, never give up.

If you have a tendency to always give up, replace that with a need to improve your conditions through commitment.

If you have a tendency to commit to the wrong things, gradually make better decisions by reflecting on what may be a better option.

If you think too much, reflecting less may not always be the answer, instead if you think too much, do more and achieve more to balance everything out.

When you misapply your wisdom generate new tactics to regenerate your commonsensical approach to problem solving, through being rational about your motives and tactical approaches.