Mandela

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our greatest fear is powerful beyond measure. it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am i to be fabulous, brilliant, talented, gorgeous? Actually, who are you not to be, you are a child of god, and your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, like children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not in just some of us; it is in everyone of us. And as we let our own light shine, we  unconsciously  give people permission to do the same. As we are liberated by our fears, our presence automatically liberates other" (Nelson Mandela, 1994)

Above is a quote that i took from the book i read (Richard Branson, Screw it, Let's do it" . When i read this part from the paragraph, i was terrifyingly amazed. What could be better than this. I believe this is the best thing i ever read. Nelson Mandela who is the former president of South Africa, given this speech during the summer of 1994. His speech has been really generous, at such a time when time was different but his speech will still glory until today and it  should be a direction for us the young generation to go forward with. 

I believe i was still in Junior high when i watched a basketball movie, Coach Carter. It described a college basketball team, that started with undisciplined, unknowledgeable, trap in the life of mafia, sex and drug that ended up as the state champion. In the movie, there was one of the player who rebelled the most, he even had a fight with the coach. As he saw his team's winning games, and he couldn't joined the team, he finally apologized to the coach as a mean of rejoining the team. His approach of rejoining the team was not a hand flip. He went to many punishments and often the coach asked him " WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST FEAR?"! He was never able to answer, until he'd been through lost, depressed, down, fallen, he finally had his answer. It was the wisdom words that were spoken by Mandela above.