Not because he wanted to be great

Last fall CBC ran a series called 'The Greatest Canadian' and we, the public, picked who we wanted, and then voted on the final 10. As I sat and watched the cases made for which of these 10 was the one, the Greatest, person to represent what Canada is I saw a startling trend michael kors tote. While all the people in the top 10 accomplished many great and wonderful things michael kors tote, what became apparent was that every single person showed an amazing capacity for Compassion, lived with and in Humility, and was unbelievably Tenacious in whatever they tackled. Quite simply, they loved humanity and desired to better it in whatever way they could.

The argument became, they simply were Canadian. Period. End of story. For me I had my favorite, Terry Fox. All 10 are great, but Terry tips the scale for me. Maybe it's the BC connection, I don't know. I read an article written by Terry's brother. He had wanted to experience a marathon michael kors tote, know just a taste of what Terry did; He trained for one year – ran one race – and had to recover for 6 months. Terry did that every day for nearly 143 continuous days. Doctors still claim that what he did was outright impossible. The human body is just not capable of that amount of activity and abuse. So how did he do it? I like to believe that a part of his ability came from being Canadian michael kors tote. That somewhere amid the love and life he experienced growing up, Terry got it, he understood the Canadian zeal that saw over one million men volunteer for the 1st and 2nd World Wars. He respected his fellow human beings and wanted, hoped, even prayed that he could somehow improve their lives. Not because he wanted to be great, or even thought that he was great michael kors tote, it was simply who he was and he couldn't be any less than that. Terry had grown up Canadian.

 It was at that time Canada abolished the death penalty (1977). While there were many good arguments why they should, the bottom line was that we would rather have to live with more guys in prison, than accept the possibility of somehow, just maybe killing that one prisoner who was innocent. Canadians had too much respect and compassion towards humanity to allow for the possibility of executing an innocent person, so it was abolished. Now, just a quarter century later, during the last federal election michael kors tote, I read in some of the 'Party Platforms' that they want to bring the death sentence back. Seems they just can't stand paying taxes to house all those prisoners. Society has become more concerned with what you can do for me, than with what I can do for you.