Battle at Kruger

Sorry five days with out blogging! I was intending this to be daily but I've slipped up this last week (I'm new to the positive thinking game and I fell off the wagon! Please forgive me!)

Today I have re-read the book SUMO (that i mentioned in a previous post) and am feeling filled with inspiration, my next blog will be a list of my goals.

I've been searching the web today for something that inspires me and I've found the perfect video on you tube. Its eight and a half minutes long, but well worth investing the time in watching because the end is absolutely INCREDIBLE!! So I suggest watch it, then come please come back and read why I find it so heart-warming!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

Okay, welcome back. I hope you found that as amazing as I do!

Here's why I love that video....

1. From the calf's perspective it shows that however bleak the future looks, there is ALWAYS hope. I bet that calf was saying it's prayers and ready to give up on life, never imagining that help was on the way! It also shows the lengths a family will go to protect one of it's own.

2. From the heard's point of view it shows that even against impossible odds, if you stand together you can triumph. When something is important enough to fight for (no Cheryl, not this love) then we must rally around and stand against it.

3. Imagine for a second that Buffalo could understand human speech (weird I know, but go with it) and they could hear those people in the truck. As the herd approach the lions everyone is yelling 'they're to late'. Now clearly we know that these people are wrong, as less that two minutes later the calf staggers away still very much alive. I wonder, if the Buffalo had stopped to listen to these ignorant people's opinions, would it have affected their determination to retrieve their lost calf.

I think that that's the most important lesson that I have learnt from this video. I take in so much of what people say to me. So far on my journey towards my dreams I've been told that I don't have what it takes and that I wont make it. But I realise now that those people have no more knowledge of the future than the spectators of the buffalo fight did. Just because people tell me my 'calf' is dead doesn't make it so. So from now on I'm going to try to ignore people's negative speculations and just keep fighting towards my dreams until the very people that have tried to discourage me are the ones cheering me on!

I believe my calf is alive, and I'm sure yours is to, as long as you're willing to fight for it!

Thanks for reading

Love Peter xXx

Todays postive quote comes from one of the smartest young men I know, Omar:

We May Not Be Able To Change The Past As We Wish, But We Can Easily Change The Present To Create A Better Future For Everyone :)