Remember those times when you feel down and out. When that feeling of a heavy iron rod sitting in your heart tugging to break it apart. When you wish that it just breaks away. When hope goes jaywalking.
What pulls you up at that time?
What pours the fuel to light up the fire when calamity washes you up.
Sometimes, loneliness feeds the sadness; but its a trickle compared to the power sadness evokes.
Sometimes, a Soothing word is all we need.
A pleasing scenery always makes you forget the source of worry for atleast sometime.
Sometimes, a motivating speech powers up the inner soul like a rocket fuel that we are ready to take on the world that very instant.
The President's speech in the movie "Independence Day" is one such speech. I had goosebumps all over me when I was seeing the movie in theatre. If they had given a gun to kill anyone in sight at that time, my friends and myself would have gladly killed everyone else in that theatre.
Here is the transcript.
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Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.
Mankind -- words should have new meaning for all of us today.
We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We will be united in our common interests.
Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.
We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.
And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!"
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!
MP3 Audio of the speech
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