“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that he didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
I’ve visited different places and read different books trying to understand why certain people go through unbearably difficult situations and conditions while risking their lives in the process of trying to achieve something.
Pursuing your dreams is a very hard and lonely road to travel.
It’s lonely not because there’s no one around you, but because no one truly understands your reasons and willingness to pay the heavy and, at times, ultimate price just to achieve that future picture.
Benjamin Disraeli said: “I’ve brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it. And that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfilment.”
These words challenged my thinking, but even more so what Steve Biko said: “It’s better to die for an idea that will live than to live for idea that will die.”
These words inspire me to face my angry storms because I know that what is possible for one, is possible for others too.
I’ve been to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela and many others were imprisoned just to get the sense of what they went through.
I’ve recently visited the Auschwitz Camps in Poland also to get a sense of what Dr Victor Frankl and many others went through.
Yes, I’ve had a fair share of challenges in my life, but nothing near what these people went through.
The only thing that made these individuals endure these horrible conditions was the vision of the future beyond the suffering.
So, if you want a better future, be willing to go through the angry storms and embrace it because it is what it is. I was born to re-ignite your fire.
