You will be a man!

If you can keep your good sense and quietness in the world that calls you crazy...
If you can believe in yourself with the whole strength of your soul when nobody believes…
If you are hungry and naked, living a solitary path with no angry …
If you can say something good about who blames you…
If you can be tender with those who are cold with you….
If you can wait without losing hope…
If you can dream but keep the view over your dreams…
If you can make from your thoughts an arc of alliance between heaven and hell…
If you can see the good in everything and resign your love with a smile…
If you can resist from the shame of seeing your words being poisoned…
If living among people you are still virtuous and noble…
If living among kings you are still humble…
If a friend or an enemy, the rich or the poor, are the same for you considering the eternity…
If you count on you and find more than you expect….
Then, the world is yours!
You have conquest the realms, the time, the space!
When you do not have anything else in yourself which is human, then be happy: you will be a man!

(Rudyard Kipling, condensed text)