Lessons from my favourite Poem "IF"

Kipling said fill the unforgiving minute with sixty minutes minutes worth of run and the earth is yours to be. Little did I know that when I was busy filling the minute with sixty minutes worth of flight I was reaching out to touch perfection.
I learnt albeit, it was after a small fall, I had not dealt in lies even when I was being lied about. But I must confess for a brief moment, that did seem to last an eternity, I did give way to hating.
I realised that I had been given the gift of meeting disaster, and treating at least this one imposter with prudent judgement. As for triumph, I hope that it will bear down on me in small proportions that I can digest. Perhaps it has already started to do battle with me and at this moment I can say that I am winning just as I did with disaster.
I cannot help but thank my well wishers who guided me to make a heap of all my life's winning after eleven years and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, and most importantly give me the confidence that I would never lose.
I must acknowledge the support of many of my contemporaries who heard the truth twisted by quacks to make a trap for fools, and did not believe in them, but stood by me to start all over again at the beginning. Ah and here I must mention all those fools too, who were trapped by the knaves. After all I learnt that I did many a times count a bit too much on friends!
I cannot help but thank my parents, who kept urging me to dream, and yet not make it my master.
I cannot help express my gratitude to the men who trusted me when I must confess there were moments when I did not trust myself. Many might say that they did not have anything to lose by trusting me with what they did, but I ask why did they have to, when they could have done without. They were and is still are I know ready to trust me with even more, if I ever need.
Most of all I cannot help but wonder about my mate who waited and amazes my by never being tired by waiting. She still continues to wait, till my dreams are fulfilled. I guess because she belives my dreams are as much hers.
In all these truimphs, disasters, lies, dreams, trusting & waits the words "Fighter Pilot is an attitude in life" too stood by me.