THE QUESTION
Isn't it amazing how few of
us ask ourselves the important question? Several years ago I was invited to hear an important speaker
address the student body of a small college in South Carolina. The auditorium
was filled with students excited about the opportunity to hear a person of her
stature speak. After the governor gave the introduction, the speaker moved to
the microphone, looked at the audience from left to right, and began : "I was
born to a mother who was deaf and could not speak. I do not know who my father
is or was. The first job I ever had was in a cotton field". The audience was
spellbound. "Nothing has to remain the way it is if that's not the way a person
wants it to be", she continued. "It isn't luck, and it isn't circumstances, and
it isn't born a certain way that causes a person's future to become what it
becomes". And she softly repeated, "Nothing has to remain the way it is if
that's not the way a person wants it to be. All a person has to do", she added
in a firm voice, "to change a situation that brings unhappiness or
dissatisfaction is answer the question : 'How do I want this situation to
become?' Then the person must commit totally to personal actions that carry them
there". Then a beautiful
smile shone forth as she said, "My name is Azie Taylor Morton, I stand before
you today as Treasurer of the United States of America".
Bob Moore - extracted from
"Chicken Soup Series, Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, Health
Communications Inc., 1995
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