It really has been a great year for underdogs. No one thought Green Bay was going to win the Super Bowl when the play-offs started. Not many people expected the people of Egypt to overtake Mubarak. Esperanza Spalding won Best New Artist at the Grammy's. No #1 seeds made it to the Final Four this year. What a great year!!!
Perseverance and determination pay off. Of course you need some talent or a idea people can get behind, but you have to work hard to get good things. I for one am really glad that people are getting to see this. So often I hear about the "millennial" generation not understanding you have to earn things before you get them. Well society is going out of its way to show them that if you put hard work in you can get positive results. We all need to look at why underdogs are so exciting and why we love them so much. I think it is because many of us wish we could do what they have done. The problem I have with that is we still can no matter how old we are.
We all need to persevere and stayed determined. We need to be judged on our actions and not on what we say we are going to do. Do you notice that we used to chose leaders who had done something before they were elected like George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower, and Theodore Roosevelt? Maybe we need to look to that model again. We all need to be judged by what we do and not our promises. Our leaders need to have accomplished something positive just like all of these underdogs. I am glad all of the underdogs have won this year and I hope my UConn Huskies who were supposed to be too tired to win this tournament can go the distance. I hope we all find the strength to go the distance that we need in our lives.
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