Courage and Rice - Go out and live your dreams, conquer lifes walls
This is an inspirational account of my journey along the Great Wall of China, achieving a world first record breaking run of the entire length of the great wall. Pushing my body to the limit. Reaching deep into the inner strength of my mind. Through this run I had to personally deal with life threatening situations and life changing decisions, ultimately realizing that in order to continue with my journey I had to embrace change and evolve. I found out how important it is to be able to change as we travel our personal journeys through life to ultimately meet with success. We all have this ability, but must make that personal commitment to want to embrace change in order to move forward.Looking back on the journey, I measure its success not by what I achieved, but by what I learnt along the way. Making a conscious effort, to take these lessons with me. The great wall, built as a protective barrier to shield the population of China from a common enemy, but in a sinister way keeping a nation busy. The wall has isolated China from the rest of the world for generations, but is now being broken down by the offspring of the very people that it was built to protect.
The wall was seen as a hindrance to expansions in the modern China, but a symbol of strength (known as the sleeping dragon). I see similar imaginary walls built by ourselves trying to shield our defects to those around us, blocking out change. But slowly as we move forward we dismantle these walls one at a time and release our sleeping dragon and go on to live our dreams.
This journey was not only about myself, but I wanted to make a difference in the lives of children. Through this journey funding was raised to enable some 54 children to receive facial surgery from Operation Smile. These children were born with cleft pallets and hair lips.
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