Thursday, January 10, 2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I'm back, and finally. I know, readership on moleland has dropped; I have lost vital eyeballs due to my absence. I am truly sorry. But I do come back with a great quote, as well as pictures from the biggest adventure of my life so far :)

This is by Theodore Roosevelt, from his speech in Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne in 1910 entitled "The Man In The Arena". Read it, because it's meaningful:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

I kept a nice little diary while I was in India to document the OCIP trip and also the travels after; am still considering if I should transfer all those words into my blog online. Do you want to read about it? If enough people want it I may just type it out :P

ps. pictures are up on facebook!

Mrs Brightside at 9:41 am

{xoxo}