I will start with a story that happened long before I was born and one that we all need to learn from. It tells of a man named Abraham Lincoln who whilst running for president and even as president saw something he hated and develeped a passion to abolish that thing which so happened to be slavery. The confederate states disliked this as it was upsetting their comfort zone and tried to fight for slavery to remain but Lincoln who must have been thinking "this is not good enough" managed after trails and hardships to get rid of slavery forever. He may have paid the price for it by being assasinated but he achieved something that many people today fail at.
This is where I go into where we fail at today, bad news happens amongst our passions and we look at these and think "oh well" or "Its a pity". I hate these words, they mean the very thing called "Settling for what society tells us" and we instead need to settle for nothing less. Where theres injustice then fight the system much like the closure of the UC Berkeley Gymnastics Program where someone has stepped up and refused the administrations request to pull the program completely and instead put up a fight to keep the program running and even went where administration should have gone by requesting funding to which I ask you guys to pray the the full funds will be met.
It takes having this attitude to be a history maker and to impact the world as we know it. If someone thinks its worthless pursuing a certain dream then make the pursuit even greater but also be prepared to put up a fight as along the way people will drag you down. Be extraordinary and live out your dream no matter what comes your way and don't give up.
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