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title: 阴差阳错
date: '2009-12-29'
slug: on-the-edge
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自从来到美帝，生活总是一波三折，有时还七八折。折得我现在见怪不怪了，对“福兮祸之所藏，祸兮福之所倚”有了深刻认识。这人呐，遇见好事不能太得意，遇见坏事也不能太失落，正所谓“不以物喜，不以己悲”。事情来一件解决一件，水来将挡，兵来土掩。今日读到老诗一首：

> If
> 
> 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 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!

这Kipling老爷子写了一大通，我总结无非就两个字：淡……！定！

![淡定](https://db.yihui.org/imgur/2R9iyPv.jpg)
