If you don’t know who Nelson Mandela is, read this. He is 90 today. Note, he credits Ghandi as a huge inspiration, and as Ben Kingsley (who played Ghandi in the Academy Award winning movie in 1982) pointed out recently in an interview with David Letterman, that while Stalin and Hitler were wreaking havoc and death upon the earth, Ghandi was liberating millions of Indians and teaching the art of non violent protest. GENIUS.
Cheers to Nelson Mandela and Ghandi then. If you haven’t already realised, wikipedia is a kind of godsend to me… an amazing resource at our lucky privileged fingertips… when you use the internet today remember, what percentage of the world have access to the luxuries you do… clean water? fresh food? access to housing? freedom of expression? Give thanks today for what you have… adopt an attitude of gratitude… it’s very becoming…
I asked my students today, when you die, how long will your entry be in Wikipedia? And what will it say about the person you were?
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