Nosipho Maketo-van den Bragt on meeting your heroes
Someone once said to me, “you should never meet your heroes”. Crazy statement. Right? I mean the whole point of meeting the person that inspires you, be it Oprah Winfrey, Greta Thunberg, Naomi Osaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Elon Musk, Nelson Mandela or Muhammad Ali, is that these influential people - dead or alive, young, and old - have propelled us from a state of daydream to acting on our deepest aspirations.
They have changed both our inner and outer world because of what they have achieved. And in times when we cannot see the light in the banality, cruelty, desperation that exists in our lives particularly now with the Covid-19 pandemic or social unrests; their life journey, their convictions have in one way, or another acted as a beacon that guides us to activate our highest imagined self.