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A lot of you are mourning.
Mr. Boseman filled a space a lot of people didn't realize was empty and a lot of other people never thought would get an occupant. He was significant.
I never met him but I'd like to ask you, in your grief, to think about the man himself.>>
Mr. Boseman filled a space a lot of people didn't realize was empty and a lot of other people never thought would get an occupant. He was significant.
I never met him but I'd like to ask you, in your grief, to think about the man himself.>>
He got his diagnosis in 2016, the year things went to hell in many ways, for all of us. He got that diagnosis on TOP of what's happening to the world. And he got it when his career was taking off to soar. Imagine that meteor hitting you. Really. Take a second and think about it.>
Then take that same timeline and look at all the things he did. Not just the films. Look at the charity work, the civic work alongside the fighting of the actual disease, all with a public persona of good cheer, calm and even joy.
Imagine the iron will it must have taken to go>
Imagine the iron will it must have taken to go>
through all of that, plus Trump, plus Climate Change, plus Covid-19. Plus being black in the USA. Plus the thousand and one daily things that all of us have to handle just because we're living.
Imagine staring all that in the face and saying, "Nope. I'm walking up the stairs >>
Imagine staring all that in the face and saying, "Nope. I'm walking up the stairs >>
I'm going through those doors. I'm driving MY life."
All this with your death sitting right next to you, breathing on you, whispering to you, every waking moment.
Imagine that smile.
Imagine that iron will.
Imagine and understand that he is us.
He was one of US.>>
All this with your death sitting right next to you, breathing on you, whispering to you, every waking moment.
Imagine that smile.
Imagine that iron will.
Imagine and understand that he is us.
He was one of US.>>
Just another human being.
No super powers, magic amulet or high-tech battle suit. No alien parents to rocket him away from trouble. A human being, just like you and just like me.
He fought every step of that time and he did it SMILING.>>
No super powers, magic amulet or high-tech battle suit. No alien parents to rocket him away from trouble. A human being, just like you and just like me.
He fought every step of that time and he did it SMILING.>>
He did it under the scrutiny of a pernicious, voracious media & fan culture that was always waiting to pounce on any flaw or stumble.
He was the definition of the Joyful Warrior.
So, yes, mourn the loss. But please also see the lesson Mr. Boseman's actual, real life teaches.>>
He was the definition of the Joyful Warrior.
So, yes, mourn the loss. But please also see the lesson Mr. Boseman's actual, real life teaches.>>
You don't need super-heroes. You don't need the fiction.
We make them, right here, in real reality.
And you're probably one of them too.
Goodnight, Mr. Boseman.
Sengathi ungaphumula emandleni.
We make them, right here, in real reality.
And you're probably one of them too.
Goodnight, Mr. Boseman.
Sengathi ungaphumula emandleni.
