the even minded mind

i want to know if any of you can pull this off... suppose you get a million bucks on the weekly lottery, what would your response be like. When i ask you about it, you have this sombre reply. Oh yea, i am grateful for the mega bucks but i 'm cool!
and suppose you have just gone through this mega tragedy in your life; eg like going bankrupt or going through this major illness, what would your response be like. When i ask you about it, will you have this unaffected reply which says something like yea, i'm down and out but i am grateful for the experience and that this adversity has taught me a thing or two...
how many of us can actually claim to have reactions like this when faced with joy or adversity? we are either over the moon when in joy or down in the dumps in the face of adversity. can we actually have this even minded mind?
sugi from the centre introduced Rudyard Kipling's IF to me and in that he says and i quote...

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

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 impostors 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:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

what profundity I cannot describe...
My swamiji always says the very same thing quoting from the chapter 12 of the Gita whereby it is stated in one of the verses;' alike to friend and foe, alike in honour and insult, alike in heat and cold, alike in praise and blame-unattached, contented and steady in mind- dear to me is such a man.'
Swamiji always says, as you are at home with joy, so should you be at home in distress. He says joy and distress are final subjective outcomes of all our interactions in life and we should thus find a way to sublimate our reactions to both.
The next time you see me smiling when i have lost my wallet or broken my finger nail or when joey pulls my already very short hair or Sean actually tramples the flower bed then you know that i have truly arrived. Till then watch out people...i am still screaming bloody murder!