Something I got from Siva. A poem from Berton Braley. Thanks, "alternick". ^_^
START WHERE YOU STAND
Start where you stand and never mind the past;
The past won't help you in beginning new;
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that's enough, you're done with it,
you're through;
This is another chapter in the book;
This is another race that you have planned;
Don't give the vanished days a backward look;
Start where you stand.
The world won't care about your old defeats
If you can start anew and win success;
The future is your time, and time is fleet
And there is much of work and strain and stress;
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs;
Here is a brand-new trial right at hand;
The future is for him who does and dares;
Start where you stand.
Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid;
Today's the thing, tomorrow soon will be;
Get the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history;
What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead;
Start where you stand.
Dammit. Where do I stand? In quicksand? Uhm, OK... yikes. I just hope I won't sink in.
