Struggles To Greatness - 2 Moving Stories...

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could be a big person and what's going to come of him is come a simple shoe maker and I was so moved by the tears of my mother that I decided to turn things around and I started putting in and I've now finished writing the H sh so why the suda because he says after 120 and I come upstairs to the bezin sh Malo imagine had I just been a simple shoem maker and they would have asked me very nice shoes but where's your H sh and I wouldn't have known what they were talking about hammock what yeah it's a great three volume magnificent work that you could have written me little old me I'm a shoem maker I don't know any toyra I don't know anything and then they'll show him the video not of the life that he lived but of the life that he could have lived and they would have asked me well why didn't you live that life you could have become great and it wouldn't have had an answer so I'm making a suda today to celebrate the fact that I won't have to answer that [Music] question that's an important story why because we're told that here one of the G is struggled as a child and let's not make a mistake everybody to become a God will be Str when I wish this young person this week I hope your son becomes a God will be stroll I didn't necessarily mean that have a Long White Beard and everybody running after him what I meant was he'd fulfill his potential in becoming an EV hasem and in that respect every person can and must become a godbro yes we may not have our names splashed upon the front room front page of the newspaper that's not the definition of a god Beast we may not have our photographs plastered all over that's not the definition of a God will beol nobody will get extra ganaden because they had their photograph around because they're famous they'll get extra ganen if they become a God be is not born to Greatness but achieving greatness becoming a god becoming a God and if we don't believe that our children can become gim can fulfill their potential potential become great people then it won't happen like we said there's no guarantees B it's all very Anonymous don't think that M became great because he had great parents no he became great because he became great so we have to help our children believe that they can become great of course we have responsibilities of our children our grandchildren let me just finish with one very beautiful story as we said before you're allowed to quote from the go I just want to read to you one paragraph maybe some of you have heard this before but it's very moving and it's very beautiful Thomas Edison was a great inventor they claim that he invented the light bulb although some disagree but he was definitely one of the greatest inventors in recent history so I'd like to just read one small paragraph one day Thomas Edison came home as a young child and he gave a piece of paper to his mother and he told her my teacher gave me this paper and told me to only give it to my mother I don't know what it says but you have to read it his mother's eyes were tearful as she read the letter out to her child and she said Thomas this is what it says your son is a genius and this school is too small for him and doesn't have enough good teachers for training him please teach him yourself after many many years after Edison's mother died Edison was one of the greatest inventors of the century and one day he was looking through old family items and suddenly he saw a folded paper in the corner of a drawer in a desk it was this note from all those years back and he took it up and he opened it and on the paper was written your son is mentally ill we won't let him come to school anymore that in fact was what was written on the note and not what his mother had read out Edison cried for hours and then wrote in his diary Thomas Edison was a mentally ill child but by a hero mother became the genius of the [Music] century it's a very beautiful story but the limit for us is that we have to believe in our children we have to believe that every one of them has a tkid any every one of them is destined to become great and as we said before greatness doesn't mean becoming all famous and have your picture on the front page of every newspaper and they sing for you when you come into a room that's not the definition of greatness when we come upstairs to the bed in Shalo nobody will ask them well how many times do they sing when you enter the Bas nobody gets gun aen for that but they'll ask him did you fulfill your potential and we as parents and as grandparents have that role to believe in our children to invest them with this amuno to D for them they can become great and like we said it's a double-edged sword on the one hand even if the parents are indeed great nobody should ever think that because married and they were the so obviously they had and Miram as children no it was not obvious they became great and could be everybody could be like if we don't believe it can happen then it will never happen so we should all have that to fulfill our own potential to become great people and to see our children also fulfilling there the