Everybody on it is incredible, the athletes, the musicians and the dancers, everybody. (Apart from that prick of a headteacher obviously, nobody likes Mr Negative.) It got me thinking about things that inspire me. (Admittedly they don't always inspire me to do anything, sometimes I just look and think, 'Wow that's class.')
Becoming inspirational seems to be a byproduct of some other goal. You dedicate your life to becoming the best you can be and in doing so you can inspire others. I think you have to have overcome some form of adversity in achieving that goal to be described as an inspiration. (One doesn't imply the other though. Trump will have to overcome a lot of adversity from any sane minded American if he is to become president. He isn't an inspiration, he's an incredibly well educated idiot. Changing Obama for Trump would be like finishing your incredibly attractive girlfriend so you can have sex with a cow instead. A cow in a wig. Called Donald.)
The ongoing Syrian refugee crisis is filled with inspirational stories. Competing at the Rio Olympics will be Team Refugee. To have fled from your home country because of war and made a living for yourself on foreign soil is incredible in its own right, but to do that and be an Olympic athlete is even more amazing. I cannot begin to imagine the sense of despair many of the refugees will be experiencing so to see people in a similar position to themselves competing at the greatest sporting event must be truly inspiring. You don't need to be in the eyes of the world to be an inspiration but stories like this one fully deserve the coverage they get and more.
If we look for it, inspiration is all around us. What you may find inspirational is not necessarily the same as what I do. (And vice versa of course, I'd be surprised if there were many other people who find Bamboleo inspiring. He has great bounce-back-ability in the face of adversities such as locking himself in a room because he can't open the door. Admittedly some of that may be due to the bouncy ball he ate yesterday.) Whatever inspires us we should be grateful for it. 'There's always someone worse off than yourself' is probably the most unhelpful advice imaginable but thinking about what inspires you can help you to overcome the adversity you are facing, be that ill health, stress or even the horrors of a two-day hangover.
There, a blog about inspiration, which I realise is very different from an inspirational blog. It appears I have once again taken it upon myself to provide life advice. Take what you want from it, I'm taking credit because I wrote it.
