Brandon Leake — Power of One

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of one says an old proverb if you want to travel fast go alone if you want to travel far then go together but everyone's journey begins with a single decision the decision to choose better today than yesterday a decision to see life from perspective of a child not plagued by the afflictions of past memories or the doubts that come with age, but the sage wisdom of knowing that life is a story and that it moves forward only if you continue to turn the page because, as I said, the journey of everyone begins with one, whether it is a person looking in the mirror or one who sees his own reflection in another person's eyes, a person understanding that it only takes a while to change another person's destiny, whether to Through a word we speak or Through an action we take, we have a chance to change someone's life because, like I said, everyone's journey begins with a moment, a moment when everything erodes into becoming In the dust we came in and now it's up to us to choose what we will do. create in the midst of the ash to choose between fading into the twilight never to be seen again or instead chasing the sun knowing that we will rise again this is the

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of one the recognition that our human condition is what We must overcome to truly complete our vision, this mission that we are now so desperately trying to achieve, to understand that we have not been created to exist in isolation, but to commune in community communally, but our autonomy to choose is our greatest gift, the one that is in on equal footing with the right side of history, the one who chooses to raise the voices of the voiceless, the one who chooses to be the chains we so desperately seek and so desperately need, the one who chooses to live united instead of divided . this is the power of one you