*The following is copyied and pasted from the Huffington Post Website*
Allow me to not feel inspired, but empowered; for inspiration comes and goes
in fleeting seasons, but a moment of sheer empowerment grants enough strength
for a lifelong commitment of following dreams relentlessly. Inspiration is
deceptively sweet, for when it is allowed it to leak into your heart; it gains
an undeserving confidence, and brings havoc when it flies away into the heart of
another ambitious soul. Empowerment is no crystal staircase.Empowerment exposes
light into the dark confines of your inmost being. It shreds away the doubt, the
excuses and the anxiety associated with the death of a dream. Empowerment is a
difficult pill to swallow, yet the desperate cure needed for the apathetic
generation to be encouraged to change the world.
Allow me not to be a winner, but a champion, for a winner is only a flirter
of the fates, but a champion inputs endless efforts to succeed. A winner
receives its tidings through chance and probability, but a champion earns its
winnings through hard work and perseverance. A winner expects such success, but
a champion has to defeat all odds before its outcome can be foreseen. I do not
want to taste success on a golden platter handed to me by a servant. I do not
want to given a reputation that I did not earn. Allow me to go through the
abyss, the fire, the storm, the devastation to rise up as a leader, a conqueror,
a victor. For when I go through the worst, I am transformed into the best.
I am not a Nobel Peace Prize winner. I am not the top student in my junior
class. I am not the winning goal, nor the scoring basket. I am however,
motivated by my ambitions to change the world. I am no one special; but I have
loved deeply and trusted infinitely. I may not have the most tear-evoking story
out there, but I do have a story that has motivated me to not become another
statistic, to see success from my efforts. I may not be the prettiest face or
the skinniest body, but I am learning to love myself, and for me, that's a great
start. I am learning things I like about myself, and things I do not, but I am
accepting both and learning to pursue my dreams, as an empowered
champion.