DON’T QUIT

 

                DON’T   QUIT

‘Don’t Quit’ is a motivational poem about the advantages of steadfastness and perseverance. Its message is that it is a blunder to become impatient at the last moments of an adventure and give up thinking that success is unsure. It is indeed the last moments which matter most in any competitive or non-competitive game. It is at this time that the player becomes pessimistic and stops playing. In the uncertain affairs of life nothing can be more harmful than this type of attitude. To give up during the last stage of a venture is to lose foolishly, to hold on, is to gain wisely. Better, relax a bit if you must, and  hold on. Don’t quit.

            The text of this anonymous poem runs as follows:

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest  if you must, but don’t you quit.

 

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As everyone of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out;

Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow---

You may succeed with another blow.

 

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man---

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor’s cup.

And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

 

Success is failure turned inside out ----

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.

And you can never tell how close you are;

It may be nearer when it seems afar;

So, stick to  the fight when you’re hardest hit---

It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.

 

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25^th June 2022                                G.R.Kanwal