Rudyard Kipling’s Poem “If” Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Crypto
Rudyard Kipling, most famous for writing Jungle Book, is also a well renowned poet. My favorite Kipling poem is “If”. For almost every…
A Scene From the movie “Jungle Book”, Adapted From A Rudyard Kipling Book
Rudyard Kipling, most famous for writing Jungle Book, is also a well renowned poet. My favorite Kipling poem is “If”. For almost every moment in life, there’s a relevant line in “If”. Turns out there’s a line for almost everything you need to know in Crypto:
If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you — HODL
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too — Ignore Jamie Dimon, but realize there are definitely some scams around
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting — Satoshi’s White Paper was written in 2008. Gotta play the long game
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies — Call the lies out like Vitalik calling out Craig Wright
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating — Not hating the haters was a Crypto New Years Resolution of mine
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise — Sometimes people in Crypto take this too literally, like Moe Levin and the BTC Miami fiasco
If you can dream — and not make dreams your master — Building a Crypto utopia in Puerto Rico is a great dream, but they’re not just dreaming, they’re doing
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim — All the great Medium Crypto bloggers who are also great operators.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same —Crypto goes up, crypto goes down.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken, Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools — Turns out Vitalik wasn’t an investor in TenX
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools — Forking
If you can make one heap of all your winnings, And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss — People who didn’t HODL and sold at the bottom
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on! — HODL!
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch — If you can make a ton of money in Crypto and not buy a Lambo
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much
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! — If we work hard top make Crypto a reality, the biggest global impact will be on the good Crypto does for billions of people less fortunate than those reading this post. That’s what the community needs. That’s what the community is doing. That’s why I’m proud to be part of the community.
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