"What's your problem? What's the hole in your heart? I need the noise, the applause. You needed the grades. Why are you here at Harvard Square? Why do you have to listen to me? What have you given up to get here? Is success your drug of choice? Or are you driven by another curiosity? Your potential. Your potential of a given situation. Is missing the moment unacceptable to you? Is wasting inspiration a crime to you? It is for the musician. If this is where we find our lives rhyme, if this is our common ground, well, then, I can be inspired as well as humbled to be on this great campus because that's where I come from -- music."
This speech was made by Bono at Harvard to the students of Year 2001 - I spent quite a few moments peering into the passage while doing my English paper (there were so many people in my school who had no idea who U2 was, I found that kinda sad :P) and it was so profound. Do you know how it feels when everyone can see the problems going on in their lives but nobody ever speaks up? To a teenager - does anyone else know what happens at home? I was writing about the problems of technology in my second English paper, and you know I really think some people have faced peer pressure from buying all these gizmos and gadgets just to show that they are acceptable. This country looks pretty small from afar, but hello, these problems really do affect people. Who actually voices out?
Nobody really does. But even without a voice - we already know that there is a need out there that needs to be met. Seriously. If not later, than definitely SOONER.
To a basketball player - Does he play for the team? Does he play against his opponents, or is he playing against himself?
To a singer, as Bono had phrased - "When you need 20,000 people screaming your name in order to feel good about your day, you know you're a singer."
&... to God,
As Dr. A.R. Bernard would so eloquently put it, "You are His poem. The expression of His glory. He has gifted you uniquely, wired you and designed you to present you as His creation to be appreciated by the world." - CHC Harvest Times
"Each time we nurture something into its fullest potential, we reveal a little of that divine creativity implanted in us and thus bring glory to Him." - Rev. Kong Hee
There is a God who is going to save the day, because His word really never fails and He is going to make a way! for my situations, circumstances, and for my friends. YES! my friends!
We don't know what to do - but our eyes are on You.
This speech was made by Bono at Harvard to the students of Year 2001 - I spent quite a few moments peering into the passage while doing my English paper (there were so many people in my school who had no idea who U2 was, I found that kinda sad :P) and it was so profound. Do you know how it feels when everyone can see the problems going on in their lives but nobody ever speaks up? To a teenager - does anyone else know what happens at home? I was writing about the problems of technology in my second English paper, and you know I really think some people have faced peer pressure from buying all these gizmos and gadgets just to show that they are acceptable. This country looks pretty small from afar, but hello, these problems really do affect people. Who actually voices out?
Nobody really does. But even without a voice - we already know that there is a need out there that needs to be met. Seriously. If not later, than definitely SOONER.
To a basketball player - Does he play for the team? Does he play against his opponents, or is he playing against himself?
To a singer, as Bono had phrased - "When you need 20,000 people screaming your name in order to feel good about your day, you know you're a singer."
&... to God,
As Dr. A.R. Bernard would so eloquently put it, "You are His poem. The expression of His glory. He has gifted you uniquely, wired you and designed you to present you as His creation to be appreciated by the world." - CHC Harvest Times
"Each time we nurture something into its fullest potential, we reveal a little of that divine creativity implanted in us and thus bring glory to Him." - Rev. Kong Hee
There is a God who is going to save the day, because His word really never fails and He is going to make a way! for my situations, circumstances, and for my friends. YES! my friends!
We don't know what to do - but our eyes are on You.
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