Looking at the title, what’re you thinking? Is this a post about myself? my story? my comeback from being hacked? Perhaps its a way for me to introduce my newest video, a way for me to tell a story about my past, a statement about what has happened to me. Let me tell you what happened to me last night and today.

Last night after coming home from church, I remembered that this week was the Espys. Now what’s so important about the Espys to me? Nothing. Its that Espy weeks means that its the week the Jimmy V foundation for Cancer has their fundraising on sports radio. I’ve heard small excerpts of the speech on the radio before (I usually leave it on the sports station) and always found it motivational so I took the time to youtube it last night (for those wondering, Jim Valvano was a college basketball coach that fought cancer and eventually lost, but he won the 1993 Arthur Ashe award and started the ESPN Jimmy V foundation for cancer research) and it was an AMAZING speech. Two quotes from it really stood out to me:

1. Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up. (This is the quote that the Jimmy V foundation is famous for)

2. Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul and those three things are going to carry on forever.

The speech overall had an impact on me and for those who’ve never seen it here it is (there’s some humor, motivation and everything else in it. Totally worth the 10 minutes in my opinion):

Fast forward to today. As many of you know, Im a baseball fan and this week is the All-Star Game. Today was the Home Run Derby (a contest to see who can hit the most home runs) and over and over, I heard about the mention of the Josh Hamilton story. Now a few months ago, I had breifly heard it on Jim Rome show a while ago and after watching the Home Run Derby, I decided to search it up. I was completely blown away by it. That combined with the Jimmy V Espy speech made me remember my goal, my purpose, what I want to do, in life and on ms: To be a beacon of light, to be a motivation for all.

What’s the story Im talking about? Here it is (warning, for people like Josh, the video would be tl;dl (didnt listen) and the story would be tl;dr but for those who want to read it, its a really amazing, inspirational story).

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