The final couplet is on my heart this morning:
"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!"
Explicit androcentrism aside, what I love about these lines is how Kipling challenges us to change our perspective on time from being focused on the forest to enjoying the individual trees.
The truth I want to send up on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 is also my call to action this week. One of my high school English teachers required us to memorize and periodically recite our school motto:
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it; no idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."
Bottom-Line: SEIZE THE DAY!!!
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