Be inspired

The whole world watched the London 2012 Olympics and made it the most watched event in history and whilst the UK suceeded in exceeding its Medal targets for the games and inspiring a generation, Nigeria suceeded in breaking our hearts, bruising our ego and tongue-tied.

However, as a people we are used to disappointment so it doesn't matter how much the olympians or our government break our hearts, we will keep striving for the best and that could never have been done better than any group of people other than our Paralympians. They are currently excelling in London 2012 and have indeed won more medals than any Nigerian Olympic or Paralympic team. Good job folks.

If you guys have not watched any of the paralympic events, I urge to go ahead and watch at least an event and I promise that you will never have been inspired like that before.

Personally, I don't do sport or any other form of physical activity except that I recently started working on my abs and body. However, watching the paralympics has moved me to tears and has made me question and re-evaluate so many things about myself and mostly to challenge my aquaphobia and actually learn to swim.

Aside from the Paralympians, over the last one year, I have been inspired by an amazing woman named Moira Kelly. Thinking about her life makes me cry sometimes and sometimes it just motivates me to live selflessly. Moira Kelly is the humanitarian who gave life and hope to Emmanuel Kelly and Ahmed Kelly. She is also the Legal guardian to Bangladeshi twins who were conjoined in the head at birth. Emmanuel Kelly was a X Factor Australia contestant who Yoko Ono praised for a beautiful and emotional rendition of John Lennon's Imagine and his brother Ahmed Kelly is a Paralympian Australian swimmer with no limbs who came fourth in the 50metres breaststroke SB3final.

Moira Kelly is one of those women who have given their lives to charity and humanitarian causes and the fact that she has given life to these 2 amazing human beings who are doing great exploits has moved me andhas given me some direction in life.

I encourage you all  to google Moira Kelly and read a little about this amazing gift to her generation and you can watch Emmanuel Kelly's emotional performance here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W86jlvrG54o make sure you have tissue with you though.

Be inspired people and try to change your world however you can.

Much Love,
Tola Elesho

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