Now. Moment.

I have been reading and listening to dark, broody, melancholic or angry music for the past few. Time to offer something to the universal forces of Inspiration and Hope. This is something I stumbled upon quite by accident on NTV, would you believe it?

The show is called Jack & Bobby. Shows on Sunday nights.

"For some of you this night marks a return to your college life, for some
of you a new beginning. And so, upon the eve of the tremendous journey upon
which you are all embarking, I'd like to offer you a thought to take with you.
Listen carefully: you will fail here. All of you. College is not the culmination
of your high school career. It is the beginning of your adult life. Only it is a
slow sweet beginning that feels nothing like what life and all the attending
obligations will eventually bring. So fail here... This is your chance.

Do things you know you can't do, or think you can't do but hope in your
deepest most secret hidden heart that you can.

Be bad at things. Be embarrassed. Be vulnerable. Go out on a limb. Or two.
Or twelve.
The harder you fall, the farther you'll rise. And the louder you
fail, the clearer the distant bell of your future will ring. Failure is a gift.
Welcome it. There are people who spend their lives wondering how they became the
people they became, how certain chances passed them by and why they didn't take
the road less traveled. Those people are not you.

You have the front-row seat to your own transformation. And in
transforming yourself, you might just transform the world. Believe that, and
embrace the new person you're becoming.
This is your moment. Now.

http://www.jackandbobby.net/Scene_01.php


If I had known that earlier, I would not have hated Makerere so much...