Remember this Kenyan runner Abel Mutai who was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped, thinking he had completed the race. A Spanish runner, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him and, realizing what was happening, started shouting at the Kenyan to continue running. Mutai didn't know Spanish and didn't understand. Realizing what was taking place, Fernandez pushed Mutai to victory.
A journalist asked Ivan, "Why did you do that?" Ivan replied, "My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life where we push and help each other to win."
The journalist insisted, "But why did you let the Kenyan win?" Ivan replied, "I didn't let him win, he was going to win. The race was his." The journalist insisted again, "But you could have won!" Ivan looked at him and replied, "But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honor in that medal? What would my mother think of that?"
Values are passed on from generation to generation. What values are we teaching our children? Let us not teach our kids the wrong ways and means to win. Instead, let us pass on the beauty and humanity of a helping hand. Because honesty and ethics are winning!"
Hey @Delta ✈️
Congratulations on your awesome flight attendant adorning a flag of Palestine pin.
Lovely young man opposing genocide, ethnic cleansing, deliberate starvation, and land theft in Palestine!
Well done! ❤️🇵🇸
A lawyer in New York stalked and harassed a Muslim man while he was delivering Uber Eats in Brooklyn. She commanded him to take off the Kuffiyeh on his neck and proceeded to stalk and harass him in her car. She called him a terrorist, to which he responded, "Be original, I already heard that before."
She needs to be disbarred, arrested, and convicted for a hate crime!
Shitty events that have happened to me in life:
- Divorced after a 10-yr relationship
- $90K debt from a failed business partnership
- Losing my grandmother + best friend
- Long-term emotional abuse
- Dissolved business in the midst of COVID
- Losing interest in a role that was my dream job
What those shitty events resulted in:
- Greater self-awareness + conviction
- Strong boundaries and even stronger integrity
- Resilience that God himself couldn’t shake
- A loving partner who wants me to be great
- A grounded spirit that manifests positive energy
- Dream job with a tier-one team
- Live 40% in Brasil and 60% in the US
Yes… shitty things happen. All the time.
It’s a part of life.
But what matters most is our perspective and how we choose to respond to those things.
If you’re not in the best place rn, it’s okay.
I’ve been there (...hell I was there this week lol)
And if you are in a great place, you go boo.
You deserve this!
Regardless of where you are, what has helped me is finding peace + understanding that no event – whether good or bad – lasts forever.
Cheers to growth and resilience.
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This is a damn shame. At least 66 people have died I. The Tarrant County Jail since 2017 and @GovAbbott@GregAbbott_TX and @DanPatrick haven’t said a damn thing.
You cannot say that "mental health matters" when you actively participated in the bulling of a pregnant and suicidal Meghan Markle. I'm sorry, but you just can't.