I watched Invictus today. What a great movie and what a beautiful poem. I've never really been in to reading biographies or autobiographies but, after seeing the way Morgan Freeman played Nelson Mandela, I might have to pick up a copy of Long Walk to Freedom. I suppose reading about the lives of people who inspire me could be a good way to keep myself motivated in the years to come. What is the bible but the story of Christ and the biography of humanity? There is so much to learn from others. Scripture tells us that nothing is new under the sun. Everything I feel and do has been experienced by people who have gone before me. I think I'll set a goal of reading 10 biographies this year. I have no idea who else I should read about but I'm sure a list will develop.
Invictus
William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
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