On Reading Kipling's 'If'

You know the famous poem of Rudyard Kipling He called it 'If' for it quite an apt name Those lines to set example often quoted And to this day 'If' has a world wide fame. He wrote 'If' for his son John when John was still a schoolboy To be a man the sacrifice to make But when i judge myself on words of Kipling I feel that i don't have what it might take. For i am one who moans about his losses And I'd love to be a winner all the way And though i will re-start at the beginning I hate myself for mistakes when i pay. I'm not what you might call a sporting loser One don't go in a contest to be beat The winner takes the accolades and glory It's so hard to be gracious in defeat. You expected much of us males Mr Kipling Of your high standards some can only dream To become the man you wrote about in your poem One would need high principles and self esteem. You know 'If' the famous poem of Rudyard Kipling To be a man such sacrifice to make For true manhood he set the highest order And i feel i don't have what it might take