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Heroes and Inspirations
Good Looking Fat Guy
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Malala wins Nobel Peace Prize
She was a 16 year old Pakistani who defied the local Taliban's edict that girls are banned from public schools. She was shot in the face 3 times for the trouble. Malala Yousafzai survived, and instead of cowering in fear, she has become a modern day civil rights hero and inspiration to people around the world. Congratulations on a well derserved Nobel Peace Prize, Malala!
I'm very inspired by this young woman.
Who do you look up to, past or present?
She was a 16 year old Pakistani who defied the local Taliban's edict that girls are banned from public schools. She was shot in the face 3 times for the trouble. Malala Yousafzai survived, and instead of cowering in fear, she has become a modern day civil rights hero and inspiration to people around the world. Congratulations on a well derserved Nobel Peace Prize, Malala!
I'm very inspired by this young woman.
Who do you look up to, past or present?
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John Carmack, inspiration of technology
Mark Cuban, inspiration of business
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
The real tragedy is he was killed by friendly fire and the Army did their best to cover it up.
It would be a long list to say my inspirations, but they are most of my family. I will look up some of my non family inspirations when I'm not on my phone...
She's a brilliant, witty, sex-positive woman who escaped a series of emotional (and seemingly physical, though we've never talked about it) abusers.
her experiences with assholes have forged an incredible sort of independence and defiance in her
and now she works as a stripper, making BANK. She's a single mother to her absolutely precious son
she's putting herself through law school with the noble intentions of using her skills to help LGBTQ folks and sex workers
AND at the same time as all that, she's opening a business (a strip club)
also she literally saved my life about 4 months ago. I don't want to talk about it, but...I'll never be able to repay her for that
she's responsible for pulling me out of that dark, sludgy pit I was in for so long
I just love her so much you guys. Not romantically. Just...gosh, she's like a (second) big sister to me. She's the best.
Sally Ride
Yuri Gagarin
Elon Musk
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I'm inspired to never ever allow myself to become like any of them.
Fuck every last one of em.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_Holmes
Most of all I'm impressed by his ability to accept and be conscious of his personal history and how that might affect his actions or his perception of the world, whether it's his childhood or his experiences as a guard in an Israeli prison camp. I guess the moment when he changed the way I interact with the world and how I approach life (or at least my perspective of how I should approach it) was when I read this line he wrote in a book called "Prisoners", in part about those prison camp experiences:
"And I would prefer to think of myself as someone who does not justify the decisions he makes and the mistakes of his adulthood through the prism of minor childhood traumas-- and my traumas, by any reasonable standard, were minor. They were, however, mine, and they have not, alas, left me alone."
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
He kept that shoe for three days before the zookeepers managed to get it back from him.