"She's never let us down, doing things when she strives to do it," says Chuck Heath, father of Gov. Sarah Palin. My readings today took me to our current political landscape, a landscape strewn with verbal landmines. Both sides are guilty, and both sides hope the verbal claymores will tear their opponents' masks away to reveal monsters. The more I read about the faults of Sarah Palin, the more inspired I feel.
It's been a long time since I was inspired by anyone in our current media, but there is one scenario that gets me every time - the person who, through perseverance and opposition, becomes great. Learning about Palin, I have found that she is just ordinary, with extraordinary drive. I think that all of us can sympathize with ordinary, and all of us have the desire to be great - at something. Heath said, "If she didn't have a certain ability, she worked and worked and worked until she obtained that ability or skill." That's what I want from a leader. Someone who can teach me how to be better. I don't care so much about all the ever-shifting tides of change. There will always be money swinging back and forth. There will always be people trying to figure out the most efficient ways to tax, spend, earn, kill, defend, etc. But I want someone who can show me how to become the greatest version of myself, someone who takes the hard road. An ordinary person, who chooses to learn greatness and hopefully to teach greatness.
When we die, our interview with God will be who we are and the choices we made to get there. Not how much money we made or what car we drove. If having Palin as a vice president reminds me that I can be a better version of myself, then I immediately see the changes that can be made over the next four years - a better me.
It's been a long time since I was inspired by anyone in our current media, but there is one scenario that gets me every time - the person who, through perseverance and opposition, becomes great. Learning about Palin, I have found that she is just ordinary, with extraordinary drive. I think that all of us can sympathize with ordinary, and all of us have the desire to be great - at something. Heath said, "If she didn't have a certain ability, she worked and worked and worked until she obtained that ability or skill." That's what I want from a leader. Someone who can teach me how to be better. I don't care so much about all the ever-shifting tides of change. There will always be money swinging back and forth. There will always be people trying to figure out the most efficient ways to tax, spend, earn, kill, defend, etc. But I want someone who can show me how to become the greatest version of myself, someone who takes the hard road. An ordinary person, who chooses to learn greatness and hopefully to teach greatness.
When we die, our interview with God will be who we are and the choices we made to get there. Not how much money we made or what car we drove. If having Palin as a vice president reminds me that I can be a better version of myself, then I immediately see the changes that can be made over the next four years - a better me.
