Something a little bit different with this blog, and hopefully one that will get a wide readership. :) I'd particularly love to hear what the gentlemen in Japan and UAE think about it.
Of course, there isn't an awful lot different to what I've started to preach myself in these blogs. because what I use these for is to basically psyche myself up, to convince myself that I CAN do this. I CAN make it. I WILL make it.
So, below is basically a cut and pasted story from Mr. Michael Galligan, a good friend of mine who I've known for years and who has been a wonderful source of support over the years, even laughing at my jokes and he also helped me with my first ever screenplay by providing the basis for its lead character and plot. Recently he's been involved with the local wheelchair basketball team, the Bolton Bulls and by involved I basically mean playing basketball, training in basketball and signing up as the unofficial posterboy. Yes ladies, he is a basketball playing model!! With his own home. And a newt. And a dog. I have his number, form an orderly queue now.
So, please see this little story below and remember to support local charity, local people. Oh, and follow your dreams.
Michael Galligan
@RatedR1882
Today, alongside Chairman Steve we’ve (well mostly Steve)
taken 3 assemblies worth of primary school children & taught them…
…”The Way of the Bulls”, that is, we showed up, talked like
we knew stuff about stuff, showed video clips, talked more and then I threw a…
…ball at some of the braver tiny souls, and thankfully
didn’t injure any of them. All in the name of Bolton Bulls. It was way more
fun…
..than I ever expected being truly terrified in a roomful of
tiny strangers could be. One moment will stick with me for the rest of my…
..days; (brace yourself, I’m about to be serious) After one
presentation (at Ladywood School, this may be important for context) we asked…
..if there were any questions. *silence* then, one tiny hand
at the back of the room, & she meekly walks to the front, and asks…
..”Can I play wheelchair basketball?” If I achieve nothing
else at wheelchair basketball, It will be all worth it, just for that. *proud*
Typing all that out just made my cry real tears. A year ago,
I could not have done what I did today.
