If
by 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
When someone is struggling or hurting— be quiet. Listen. Ask question. Resist the human urge to fix it, say it could be worse, or to find the bright side.
You have no idea how appreciated it will be.
There are several billion people right now, who, regardless of intelligence or ambition, will toil in a lifetime of effective servitude or worse, with zero opportunity for upward mobility, regardless of what they do.
Be grateful.