I am the Captain of my Soul

William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
  

 This post originally appeared on Oct. 20, 2011


This sentence has been following me around for years now. And this week it’s become my mantra. I remember seeing it on TV at my Dad’s house in a commercial. I recall it being in a whiskey commercial. You know, like, keep on walking. But it was an ad for the Union Bank of Switzerland in 1997. 



 
Here it is:





The poem was written by William Ernest Henley in 1875 and is called Invictus. He w...