ACTIVITY:
Instructions:
Create your reflections about this poem.
- Is there any experiences in your life that you had been rejected or failed but you became better after all?
- Do you think this kind of poem uplifts you? If yes, then do you have anything to share? Create your positive outlook to overcome bad experiences to move on.
- Create your own inspirational poem at least 1-3 stanza.
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrub in the valley--but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway some happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass--
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail--
Be the best of whatever you are!
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Comments
Ok like I've said, when I was in highschool I dream of being a doctor someday, but we don't money so I took the 3rd chosen course education majoring science. I never became best one, I taught in school few months but I enjoy talking to people, blogging and writing though I am not a writer. When I remember this kind of poem , I always think to become the best of whatever I can. Before my motto was, live your life as if it is your last and make it the best thing to remember quoted by me. The only thing I realize that when it comes to a relationship, family or friends let them feel they are important so you will never regret you haven't say or shows your love or care for them.
I never taught I finished a degree or so because I am not studying well when I was in 2nd year or 3rd year in college. I stopped, and suddenly give up. I felt studying is like killing myself and tiring. But later on after I read this, I became more positive. I don't have to become so perfect. I can be the best, from any role I can be.
I had an experiences to write and use writing as a source of income sometimes. I became once in my life as financial consultant though I am not perfect I know somehow that company will appreciate it.
Once in my life I became a good partner & did my best though it doesn't end to happy ending.
Once in my life I became an agent, affiliate & now a business entrep, learning how business online works. Now I am a simple blogger, I am writing stories and once in my life I can say I am the best of whatever I can, from downfalls & realizing life is not that sad. We have so many talents we don't know that God had given us. Some have a perfect brain but not a perfect emotional stability. Some are perfect & rich but the family are very bad or doesn't have a peace of mind. God doesn't create us to become average to one thing, we need to discover our passions & make those passions and hobby to create something. God gave us Ideas not to put on a vault but to share it.
nice poem,..inspired me