“Il est interdit d’interdire”
It is forbidden to forbid. I
recently read this quote and decided to do a little research on it. Webster’s
dictionary defines the word forbid as the following: “to hinder or prevent as
if by an effectual command”. In the spring of 1968 in the streets of Paris Daniel Cohn-Bendit (now a well-known EU parliament member) told a crowd of students this very phrase which had a lasting impact on the evolution of European mentalities. This phrase meant
much to students who were struggling to scale the mountains of social
injustice and eventually became the motto of the Paris Student Revolution. We live in a world that tells us to Just Do it and that Impossible
is Nothing, while these phrases have grown in popularity and become almost
cliché I feel that we have forgotten that a true hero never succumbs to anyone
let alone opposition. As a cyclist, athlete, and student I can relate
full-heartedly to this statement in my own pursuit of glory. In order to
achieve this stardom that we desire so badly we must first learn to conquer ourselves.
This struggle is in its most basic form is about learning how to stop oneself
from forbidding ourselves from the future and our potential. It is in that
struggle where men become heroes!
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