When Things Go Wrong

Thumbing through the pages of my (old-school, non-electronic) journal, I chanced upon this piece of paper with these words scrawled on it…

When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit –
Rest if you must, but do not quit.
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 near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit – It’s when things go wrong that you must not quit.

I’m pretty confident that I couldn’t have penned such stuff, so I’m going to have to credit it to the dark figure shrouded in mystery, covered with a veil of namelessness, Mr. (forgive my assumption) Anonymous.

~ by Sayan on September 26, 2008.