Some lines

We often come across certain lines that either make a mark in our mind or are remembered just like that. Here are some of the lines that I have come across.

Few days back I was reading "Wings Of Fire" An Autobiography of A P J Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari. I coudn't finish the book (hopefully i will do so before leaving this place) but I came across quite a number of lines there. Here is one of them:

If you want to leave your footprints
On the sands of time
Do not drag your feet

How true!!! So simple yet so enlightening. how many of us doesn't know that dragging our feet leaves no footprints on the sand but how many of us think the same way about "sands of time"? Footprints and sands reminds me of another poem that I have come across many times, first time in my class 6th. It is titled "footprints". I don't remember the exact words but I suppose all of you must have come across it. (in case you have not and you want to... check this blog out after some weeks, I will write it ASAP)

Leaving marks on the sands of time... has it something to do with being famous? Because when fame comes to my mind, I almost immediately remember the lines of Emily Dickinson:

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Whatever does "leaving footprints on sands of time mean"... dragging one's feet probably means doing the work halfheartedly and that brings to my mind a series of lines.

The first one by Conrad Hilton

The man who wins is the average man,
Not built on any particular plan;
Not blessed with any particular luck -
Just steady and earnest and full of pluck.
The man who wins is the man who works,
Who neither labor nor trouble shirks;
Who uses his hands, his head, his eyes-
The man who wins is the man who tries.

Then comes by Lewis Carrol

Let craft, ambition, spite
Be quenched in Reason's night
Till weakness turn to might
Till what is dark be light

Till what is wrong be right

Of course none of us can forget to mention the famous lines by Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
miles to go before I sleep,
and miles to go before I sleep

and then comes the famous poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling.

There is something about this poem that makes it so unique... I can read it again and again and still never think of not reading it one more time.

Then there are these lines which when I came across at once reminded me of the above mentioned poem.

For all your days prepare
And meet them ever alike
When you are the anvil, bear-
When you are the hammer, strike

There are many more such lines. I will continue some other time on some other context.

Keep coming back!!!