I have come to realise that to succeed in life, we need to die first. Now most times, this death is not the physical dying as we know it, it is burying everything that holds us back, things that drag us down, voices that tell us we cannot.
I have been following closely the jasmine revolution and the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi which sparked it. At the point where Bouazizi felt he could not go on anymore, he inspired a broad spectrum of reawakening through the Arab world. In dying, he now lives forever in human history. Now, we may not need to die like Bouazizi to see change happen but we all get to that bend or break situations that shape our lives forever.
One of my favourite persons in history is Rosa Parks. Imagine American history where Rosa Parks did not hold on to that seat. Yea, maybe we still would have had a civil rights movement but definitely not in that time or manner.
I have decided to take my life in my hands, to stop regretting that which i cannot change, to leave behind those things/people that weigh me down. To laugh, to love, to let my soul shine through, to speak out for right, to be thankful.
1 comment:
This is a great Insight....
Ur dream is not what you live for...but what you can die for!
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