Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Invictus

Watched Invictus today. It was a good movie and I specially liked the way Morgan Freeman portrayed Nelson Mandela. Through the movie I came to know about the poem by the same name and how it had inspired Madiba when he was in prison. They poem was written by William Erneset Henley in 1888 after his leg was amputated. The poem is a masterpiece and is filled with inspiration. They poem:

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.


The last two lines are simply awesome and am sure will help me whenever I am down. Thats all I have for the moment and as always i would like to end it with a quote:

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius