If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills

# For all who know/knew that poem of Rudyard Kipling’s, “If” **A delightful take-off!** **If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills,** **If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,** **If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,** **If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,** **If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,** **If you can overlook when people take things out on you when,** **through no fault of yours, something goes wrong,** **If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,** **If you can face the world without lies and deceit,** **If you can conquer tension without medical help,** **If you can relax without liquor,** **If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,** **If you can do all these things,** **Then you are probably the family dog!**