So you feel let down.... read on - mysam

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Reaching Your Dream Takes Courage

Courage is admitting that you're afraid and facing that fear directly. It's being strong enough to ask for help and humble enough to accept it.

Courage is standing up for what you believe in without worrying about the opinions of others. It's following your own heart, living your own life, and settling for nothing less than the best for yourself.

Courage is daring to take a first step, a big leap, or a different path. It's attempting to do something that no one has done before and all others thought impossible.

Courage is keeping heart in the face of disappointment and looking at defeat not as an end but as a new beginning. It's believing that things will ultimately get better even as they get worse.

Courage is being responsible for your own actions and admitting your own mistakes without placing blame on others. It's relying not on others for your success, but on your own skills and efforts.

Courage is refusing to quit even when you're intimidated by impossibility. It's choosing a goal, sticking with it, and finding solutions to the problems.

Courage is thinking big, aiming high, and shooting far. It's taking a dream and doing anything, risking everything, and stopping at nothing to it make it a reality.

~ Caroline Kent ~

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Very Nice and Positive video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RQ4WVeLKJI

Good Luck everyone for Match

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have faith and believe
http://thankyougodforresidency.blogspot.com/

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Message is written in the first person... thought it rings true with our cause. Best of luck everyone...

Message:
Ive seen all your endeavours
Your hardships I know
you are my friend
I know the reason for your struggle
you have tried all your best
Stressed out you have been
Now is the final round
This is your turn to shine
I wish youu well
May all ur dreams come true.
Good luck with tomorrows match!!

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Ps. I didnt write the above message, I modified it for all of you my friends.. best of luck!!

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http://mysamsniche.blogspot.com/2010/03/...h-day.html

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Some entertainment to get by for the match & after
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mysam - 03/15/10 09:57

Finally here, the match is upon us.... you struggled to get there and now a chance for a new beginning.

Song: Finally Here by Flo rida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sXymy95HLU


The match results is out and You have matched, so finally!!! You have a chance to live your dream thanks to NRMP!!!
Song: Finally by Fergie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pWgHfVjKOo

The match result is out and You have not matched. You will overcome and strive harder for the scramble and next year.

Song: I am a survivor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s6-mbALpfk


Another good song on the struggle wither you match or not... life is a struggle
Song: The climb Miley cyrus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2zyeVRcbs

some "lyrics of the climb"
There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm gonna to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb



The struggles I'm facing,
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down but
No I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm going to remember most yeah
Just got to keep going
And I,
I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on, cause"

Best of luck everyone,..... 2 hrs remaining!!! Life goes on...

This song was sung by K'naan then resung for the victims in Haiti... an uplifting message of hope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB7L1BIDELc













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K'naan ... take a minute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIhm94a-8SE

lyrics
And any man who knows a thing knows
He knows not a damn, damn thing at all
And every time I felt the hurt
And I felt the givin' gettin' me up off the wall

I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze

How did Mandela get the will to surpass the everyday
When injustice had him caged and trapped in every way?
How did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all?
Didn't do it to gain power or money if I recall

It's to give, I guess, I'll pass it on
Mother thinks it'll lift the stress of Babylon
Mother knows, my mother she suffered blows
I don't know how we survived such violent episodes

I was so worried and hurt to see you bleed
But as soon as you came out the hospital you gave me sweets
Yeah, they try to take you from me
But you still only gave 'em some prayers and sympathy

Dear mama, you helped me write this
By showing me to give is priceless

And any man who knows a thing knows
He knows not a damn, damn thing at all
And every time I felt the hurt
And I felt the givin' gettin' me up off the wall

I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze

All I can say is the worst is over now
We can serve the hard times, divorce, it's over now
They try to keep us out but they doors is open now
My nigga, Akon is gettin' awards and covers now

This is K'naan and still reppin' the S
Comin' out of Mogadishu and still draped in the mess
And no matter how we strong, homie
It ain't easy comin' out of where we from, homie

And that's the reason why, I could never play for me
Tell 'em the truth is what my dead homies told me
Ooh yeah, I take inspiration from the most heinous of situations
Creating medication out my own tribulations

Dear Africa, you helped me write this
By showing me to give is priceless

And any man who knows a thing knows
He knows not a damn, damn thing at all
And every time I felt the hurt
And I felt the givin' gettin' me up off the wall

I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze

Nothing is perfect man, that's what the world is
All I know is I'm enjoying today
You know 'cause it isn't every day that you get to give

And any man who knows a thing knows
He knows not a damn, damn thing at all
And every time I felt the hurt
And I felt the givin' gettin' me up off the wall

I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze

I got nothin' to complain about
You know where I'm from
You know where I'ma last, so
You know I was flyin' high

I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride
I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze

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http://mysamsniche.blogspot.com/2010/03/...iliar.html

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As per Mysam's request:

for those who rely on faith in times of adversity I thought I'd share this story sent to me by my friend to console me as I didn't make the match.. and had a taxing year as I am sure many of you have had:

There was an old man in a village, very poor, but even the kings were jealous of him because he had a beautiful white horse. Kings offered him fabulous prices for the horse, but the old man would say, "This horse is not a horse, it is a person. And how can you sell a person, a friend?" The man was called a fool; but he never sold the horse.

One morning he found that the horse was not in the stable. The whole village gathered around him and said: œLo foolish old man! We knew that someday the horse would be stolen. It would have been better to sell it.

The old man said: 'do not go too far as to say that. Simply say that the horse is not in the stable. This is the fact; everything else is a judgment. Whether it is a misfortune or a blessing I don't know, who knows what is going to follow it?"

People laughed at the old man. They had always known that he was a little crazy. But after some days suddenly one night the horse returned. It was not stolen, it escaped into the wild. And not only that, it brought with it a dozen of other wild horses.

The people gathered and they said, "Old man, you were right, this was not a misfortune it has indeed proven to be a blessing.'

The old man said, "Again you are going too far. Just say that the horse is back. Who knows whether it is a blessing or not? It is only a fragment. You read a single word in the sentence and judge the whole book."

This time the people could not say much, but inside they knew that he was wrong. Twelve beautiful horses had come.

The old man had an only son who started to train the wild horses. A week later he fell from a horse and his legs were broken. The people gathered again, and again they judged. They said again you have proven to be correct. It was a misfortune, your only son has lost the use of his legs and in your old age he was your only support. Now you are poorer than ever."

The old man said: "You are obsessed with judgment. Don't go that far. Say only that my son has broken his legs. Nobody knows whether this is a misfortune or a blessing. Life comes in fragments and more is never given to you."

It so happened that after a few weeks the country went to war; and all the young men of the town were forcibly taken for the military. Only the old man's son was left because he was crippled. The whole town was crying and weeping, because it was a losing fight and they knew most of the young people would never come back. They came to the old man and they said: œYou were right, old man - this has proven to be a blessing. Maybe your son is crippled, but he is still with you. Our sons are gone forever."

The old man said again "You go on and on judging. Nobody knows, only say this - that your sons have been forced to enter into the army and my son has not been forced. But only Allah, the Total, knows whether it is a blessing or a misfortune."

'Judge ye not' - otherwise you will never become of the content.

In fact, the journey never ends. One path ends, another begins: one door closes, another opens. You reach a peak; and a higher peak is always there. The way to Allah is an endless Journey.