Rising to the top

Only those who go through ticks and turns before they make it could tell the story of a "HERO"
 
The English Oxford Dictionary defined a "HERO" as a person, especially a man who is admired by many for doing something brave or good. At 80 years of age, Charles De Gaulle was president of France, it is no more news that a former president of the united states of America once ruled on wheel chair, in his book, the dynamic laws of services, Harvey Day wrote: Few people can point to as many failures as Abraham Lincoln, in 1882 he was defeated as a candidate for the legislature, in 1883 he failed in business and lost all his properties, in 1838, he was defeated as a candidate for speaker, in 1843, he was defeated as a candidate for congressional nomination, in 1848, he failed to be re-elected to congress, in 1855, he was defeated as a candidate for the senate, in 1856, he was defeated as a candidate for vice-presidential nomination, in 1858, he was again defeated when he tried to get into the senate. Yet he eventually became one of the worlds famous American president. His Gettysburg address where he defined democracy as "The government of the people by the people and for the people" is still one of the greatest pieces of oratory throughout the ages and worlds favourite definition of democracy. little wonder why Thomas Edison failed over a thousand times before he invented the electric bulb. when asked in a press conference why he had to fail over a thousand times before he succeeded, he put it simply  "I only learned over a thousand times why I should not fail again" the old have a tendency to look at the sunset rather than the sunrise. A calender has nothing to do with it, whether you are old or young has nothing to do with what you want to achieve in life. Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe once attempted to commit suicide while in America, he later became the first president of independent Nigeria. General Yakubu Gowon was less than 27 years of age when he became a military head of state in Nigeria, he held unto that post for almost a decade. He even led Nigeria in her first civil war and won against the Biafrans who wanted to secede from Nigeria. Dr Nelson Mandela was in jail for 27 years for fighting a cause yet he never gave up, he only saw it as a stepping stone not a stumbling block. He later became the president of South Africa. Age is not a barrier "Heroism lies in the courage to pursue and achieve what you want in life with vigorous tenacity".