43 Things: I Have Done This --> Never, Ever, Ever Believe In The Word IMPOSSIBLE.

Impossible is just a word.

Whenever I feel discouraged and find it hard to keep going, I open my journal to a page from April 2004. It was quite a sad day as Clancy and I were going through a very terrible quarrel. I was having coffee and looked up the facade of a building which had this huge ADIDAS banner draped over it. The copy on the banner caught not only my attention but struck a chord so strong inside me that I scribbled what was written on the banner in my journal so that I could always remember … so that I could always read those words again when I feel beaten, broken and defeated. It reads:

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
~Richard Bullock~

43 Things: I Have Done This --> To Love And Be Loved In Return

Moulin Rouge.

I remember the lines from Moulin Rouge that goes “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.”

I don’t know where to begin to describe how it feels to love and be loved back, how it changes you, how it makes you feel so alive each day. I can only count myself lucky that I loved truly and greatly once in my lifetime and was loved with the same fervor. If I may borrow the words of Delphine de Girardin:

To love the one who loves you
To admire the one who admires you
In a word, to be the idol of one’s idol
Is exceeding the limit of human joy
It is stealing fire from heaven