Homage To Kipling

Do you ever ponder on the purpose of life? wonder why things turn out the way they do? ever look back and think I did that wrongly? then go and make exactly the same mistake? ("If you can dream- and not make dreams your master If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:") What is the purpose of us even being on this planet? Will our actions live on once we are gone from here? Or like a breeze floating past will we just vanish? Like the early dawn mists burnt off by the sun? What will you teach your children about this coil? Will you guide them well? make them fine citizens? Leaving them to be your legacy of a life well spent? They say a butterfly's wings beating changes the weather All I know is strive to do right and be kind to all To put others first before I choose a path in life ("Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!") 07/25/2013 written for Homage contest passages taken from If by Kipling