She inspires...Aung San Suu Kyi

I still can't get over this woman. She is such an inspiration. She has such a profound effect on me, everytime I think about her, I swell up with so much emotions and yet so much courage to be the best I can ever be.

How someone endure 24years under arrest, when she could have simply walked back into her good life in the UK with her husband and 2sons? How you a woman leave your husband and children for a cause that you believe in? The same cause that killed your father? The same cause that deprived you of ever seeing your husband before he died of cancer. The same cause that prevented you from raising your own children. A cause that is high and above your family. She is just amazing.

I was having a conversation with someone today about her and the person said, maybe she was born to be great. How can someone or only a few people be born to be great, be chosen to do extra-ordinary things? Are we not equal in God's sight? Do children of God not have equal abilities to do extra-ordinary things? Why would God favour one person over the other? For some reason, I strongly believe that God has deposited all we need in each of us to be great and achieve extra-ordinary things. It is really down to each of us to find the strength, the will power and the courage to seek for the greater good in life or what we believe in.

Mandela also inspires me, to think he could have left jail if he surrendered his cause, yet he did not. He left his wife and children, to fight a cause that others before him have failed. What makes a man want to do this? What has God deposited in him to make him do this? Was he chosen for this cause?

I just don't think people are special, extra-ordinary or born to do great things. I strongly believe that fortune favours the brave.

Aung San Suu Kyi has inspired me to do the following

1. Join the gym again and wake up at 6:20am each day, go the gym and do at least 40mins exercise, before work. I just don't see any reason why I can not lose weight, go back to my pre-pregnancy dress size of 10 and maintain it through-out my life, when a woman with 2 children and a husband left everything and remained under house arrest for 24yrs, fighting the military juntas? If she can do something so enormous, so can I also exercise and maintain by a mere size 10.

2. Enrol for a one day unpaid volunteering job at the princes trust to help young disadvantage schools kids with their CVs and interview techniques. If a woman can be under arrest for 24yrs, waiting for her people's freedom, so can I also forfeit a day's salary to help support the future of the next generation.