By Dele Sobowale
“If you can keep your head while others all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you….’Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936.
Rudyard Kipling regarded keeping one’s composure when bedlam reigns all around as a virtue to be cultivated. What you have just read above is the first stanza in his classic poem titled ‘IF’ and which was such a delight for us to memorise in 1960. In the university taking elective courses in philosophy, it soon became obvious that imperturbation might be admirable in general, but carried to extremes, it might mean that the individual has not got a good grasp of the situation. Acting too late actually turns a minor mistake into a major disaster. History is replete with instances of medicine being applied after death. Slow learners are frequently proud of a characteristic which drives others crazy. And, worst of all, they never change.
Many of our readers can recollect one of our mates in pre-primary school; the sort who takes…
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