A little bit of Brian Blessed for you……..
Now there’s nothing digital about this blog entry, more inspirational really.
In these days when its dark when you rise and dark before you even leave the office, when the media is saturated with economic doom and gloom and stories about sharks eating each other in a giant aquarium in Dubai, I thought that I would share the inspirational evening I had recently.
I went to the Royal Geographical Society to hear Brian Blessed speak about his life and travels. Crikey what a man.
In walked this humongous presence of a bearded man, leapt on to stage, you wouldn’t find many 72 years leaping anywhere, and said hello, two thumbs up and shouted “ GORDONS ALIVE…. “ (for those of you who remember Flash Gordon on TV that will make sense.
The hour just whizzed by as he spoke about his childhood, leaving school at 14 , his operatic training, his climbing of Mont Blanc, his achievement of being the oldest person to trek up Everest with no oxygen and his journeys into the Amazon, and the man just didn’t sit still.
The only thing he admitted to being afraid of was going on “Stars in their Eyes” as Pavarotti, as which point he then burst into the chorus of Nessun Dorma.
If you ever have the opportunity to see this man speak go, please go. We walked away feeling anything and everything was possible, that however bleak things look there are always great things happening around you.
He’s become a real icon for me, and why not, he’s currently training with the Russians and NASA to go to Mars…………..
I think the point of this story is that there are a great deal of worried people out there, you have to keep faith, stay positive and know that we survived the last recession when the bubble burst, and as digitals not really a bubble, a huge explosion followed by complete silence isnt very lightly.
Keep smiling
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