Yep, holiday kicks in and its time to update. But ah, before spending a whole new post, i would like to share this video to you. Its a clip from the drama series "Jack and Bobby". Yes i admit it i watch the drama series because of Matt Long which cast one of the main roles Jack McCallister. However, it is indeed a great drama, focusing on the misery of life, family problems, brotherhood, love; well in short, life. The main focus of the drama is on between Jack and Bobby, the two McCallisters, who become the U.S.A. President. Well of course it already told us who became the one in the first episode, still, it is worth following the whole drama.
I first crossed path with this drama was back when i was just, hmmm, 15 or 16, when i was still, well, a teenager. Not really the brightest one in the school but the brightest one in the family? (ok, a bit of boasting here, sorry!) With all those hopes on me i began a life that is, indeed, more toward pleasing my parents, now is my mother, for what she hopes for me to become. It is not that i never think of what i want to be, but in every senses or thoughts, i always cross them with the responsibilities i bear to my mother, my family.
Because of that, pretty much i never made any great failures of my life, well of course here and there, there is a little failing and hurt, but it never is those big, huge, problems that i ever heard of. The obedient son in the eyes of the adults, the bright teenager in the sights of the teachers. Pretty much i never spent too much of my time before to do something considered "useless".
It is when i start walking through my university, i start choosing, defining and deciding my life. More or less i still influence by my mother and the responsibilities i bear, however, things that it is always a "no" before, i start to include them in my life. Student council. Project leader. Responsibilities. And of course, failures. That is when i started to flash back to this drama, and here is the clip that i found on Youtube.com and i present it here to you. It is originally titled "Moonlight Speech" by the uploader, but i prefer to name the speech:" Failure Is A Gift, Welcome It."
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"Good evening, I would like to welcome all of you tonight to a renaissance.
For some of you, tonight marks a return to your college life; for some, a new beginning.
And so on the awe of the tremendous journey, a path of which you are all embarking, I would like to offer you a thought to take with you.
Okay, listen carefully.
You will fail here. All of you.
College is not the combination of your high school career; it is the beginning of your adult life. Only it’s a slow, sweet beginning. It feels nothing like what life and all its attending obligations will eventually bring so fail here.
Be bad at things. Be embarrassed. Be afraid. Be vulnerable. Go out in a limb or two or twelve, and you’ll fall, and it’ll hurt. But the harder you fall, the farther you rise. The louder you fail the clearer your future become.
Failure is a gift, welcome it. There are people who spend their whole lives wondering how they became the people they became. How certain chances passed them by. Why they didn’t take the road less travelled. Those people are not you. You have the front row seats to your own transformation, and in transforming yourself, you might even transform the world. And it’ll be your electric, I promise you, it’ll be terrifying. But embrace that embrace the new person you becoming.
This is your moment. I promise you it is now, now, not, not two minutes from now, not tomorrow, but really now. Own that, know that deep in your bones and gonna sleep every night knowing that and wake up every single morning remembering it and then keep going.
Keep going.
Thank you."
