There comes times when one must
rise to the occasion
rather than sink to the same old same ...
The leader who
focused on their life's problems
found a cure - a new way,
spent a lifetime
wrestling through the grime
to power and influence
- only to be overtaken
by circumstances anew,
challenges unseen and
unanticipated,
and a choice:
would they set aside
- perhaps for good,
their life's goal and work
- their dreams,
and ...
rise to the occasion
rather than sink to the same old same ...
With acknowledgement of: FDR, who did this twice - the second, World War Two, being flawed, but world changing, whereas the first, his polio, changed him; Abraham Lincoln, who did it once; Gorbachev, who oversaw the end of the Cold War; Zelensky - who also did this twice, with the Russian invasion and the earlier COVID pandemic; and Jacinda Ardern, who led her nation through the pandemic (which impacted on her planned massive changes) and coping with a mass atrocity. There are a lot of other great leaders, but many of those never had to change their life path so fundamentally, or faced what they knew they had to. And then there are the countless unknown people who do this all the time ...
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