People I Admire

People I Admire by Dewayne Allday, January 17, 2008


Here is a partial list of my heroes and people I admire...

Benjamin Franklin - If there was anyone in history that I can totally relate too it's Benjamin Franklin.. Reading his writings are like reading myself

Thomas Jefferson - These guys loved our country and used their gifts not out of corruption (except maybe for the occasional slip up :o)

Winston Churchill - For taking a firm stand against someone that was obviously a threat and not taking a back seat in the matter.

Teddy Roosevelt - For the mentor he was, the man he was, the leader he was. For taking a bullet from an assassin and still giving his speach while the bullet was still in him.

Helen Keller - For a person that some said could not see, she could see oh so well

Mother Teresa - Time recently disclosed some of Mother Teresa’s personal diaries (which really ticked me off) of how at times later in her life she felt no presence of God. Actually, if the editor had any sense or religion, whatsoever, he would have not have shown his incompetence by allowing the article to go to print. Obviously he didn’t understand faith (although we all need a little reminder from time to time). The bad kid needs constant supervision. Anyway, despite the "absence of God’s voice" later in life, she still did what God originally told her to do in the beginning when he was building her faith, talking to her, and teaching her life-long lessons. She was “the good kid” and if it was true that towards the end of her tenure here on earth, she truly felt no presence of God, or had no constant reminder from God to keep going, yet kept doing what God had originally told her to do early in her life, there is certainly no better testament of what faith is. When I get to Heaven I'll see her on a well deserved pedestal, and I'd love to sweep the floor in her kitchen.

Princess Diana - I admire this woman. She was/is an example for all. She could have been in the shadows like many, but she went to the front, and was not some little puppet. She was herself. She was real. She seized her window in time and made it into something wonderful. She was human, but she was everything a princess should be.