It’s hard to think about the leaders in my life that changed it without me even being aware that it was being changed.
It makes me feel indebted, like I owe them something - something big, because after all, they changed my life.
This was something that I was reflecting on this morning. Specifically, the leadership a global figure that gave me purpose, passion and direction without me even knowing it. It was 2008, and the leader is Barack Obama.
Where I come from, he was questioned, criticized and accused, and his election was the first time time in my lifetime that I can recall leadership of any kind being denounced by the people around me.
Regardless of political views and opinions, and what mine are and were at the time, he changed my life because he broke barriers and shook the world around me so much, that I saw the brokenness of it all for the first time. And that is what gives one purpose and an opportunity to ‘take one’s greatest joy and help meet the world’s greatest needs.’
-Cliff
Cliff’s Note: Thanks, Obama.