Inspirational

2012-01-15T23:36:00.004-05:00

Just watched Invictus for the second time, not in the theatre this time. And it is still just as inspirational as it was the first time. Makes you want to wake up from your slumber and change the world. I love love love movies like that. The poem that was given by Nelson Mandela to the president of the South African rugby team, was an old Ernest Henley poem, that still has the ability to bring out the fighter and the survivor in a person.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
- Ernest Henley

I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. Once I start working, I am going to pay for myself to go to Africa on a volunteer trip. It is going to happen. I am going to make sure that it does. :)

Since I'm on a rant of poems.. I might as well post this one up too. That I have kept close to me my whole life. It was introduced to me by my old English teacher. And when I had to do a reading of a poem in class, this was the one I chose. And I have to say that it is very close to me and my life, and always gives me comfort.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost

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Inspirational