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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 impostors 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 breathe 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!”

………………

and this photo is by Myra Lambino — and the verses: the walang-kamatayang (the immortal) “If” by Rudyard Kipling

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

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Wordpress Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

Yehey! i’ll be able to use an original Filipino composition by an iconic songwriter, Jose Mari Chan. Here it is; i’ve also embedded the audio of the song (thru Youtube) below…

Constant Change

(words and music by Jose Mari Chan)

(OPM: Original Filipino Music)

[Jose Mari Chan sang this with so much sadness it seemed like he was saying good-bye to something — or someone — or someplace he almost didn’t want to let go.

Jose Mari Chan was one of those famous Filipinos who had to leave the country when martial law was declared, or at the height of martial law. This song was released post-martial law, after the dictatorship had fallen, and “exiled” Filipinos had returned. i get the sense that he wrote parts of it while he was somehow packing, writing to friends, closing doors and windows, preparing to leave what they had known as home for more than a decade to come back to the Philippines … take a look-see. (pls click the audio, too, below… Photo for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Change, by Myra Lambino]

“We’re on the road

We move from place to place

And oftentimes when I’m

about to call it home

We’d have to move along

Life is a constant change…

Photo by Myra Lambino in New York where she attended her College Silver Jubilee Reunion and was asked to deliver an impromptu speech to represent her batch — she found “long-lost friends”.

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“The friends we know

we meet along the way

Too soon the times we share

form part of yesterday

‘Cause life’s a constant change

And nothing stays the same, oh no

Clouds that move across the skies

Are changing form before our very eyes

Why couldn’t we

keep time from movin’ on?

Hold on to all the years

before this moment’s gone?

Why must we live the days

at such a frightening pace?

xxxx

Cause life’s a constant change

And nothing stays the same, oh no” – Jose Mari Chan

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