Triumph of Freedom and Will

I was inspired by someone on Oprah's show last week. Kyle Maynard was born without hands and feet, with something called congenital amputation that caused him to be born with arms that end at the elbow, and legs that end at the knee. Yet, he was a nose tackle on a football team in elementary school, and a champion in varsity wrestling. He can type faster than most adults, wrote a book, and is making a living speaking, and inspiring millions. He lives not only to be independent, but to inspire others to rise above the physical, to live with "No Excuses".

His motto "It's not what I can do; it's what I will do."
is the paragon of Nietzche's superman, without the twisted self-agrandizement of Triumph of the Will. His story is the epic journey of a person who rises above his or her limitations, beyond what is conventionally accepted as possible, and achieve by virtue of Will. That is freedom - to choose to dream the so called impossible dream, to go beyond what others cannot even see, to Be just because you Will.

Beyond the Triumph of Freedom and Will, is his Faith. Words can hardly do justice to the wonder of seeing Faith in action. To me, that's what his triumph really signifies, to believe in a God with greater powers than mere mortals, and to live up to the high standrads, and boundless grace, and as Christ said, "easy yoke". Few people invoke such response from me in the past. Pope John Paul II was one just person, whose faith freed millions behind the Iron Curtain. Perhaps, in time, Kyle Maynard will free the millions now bound in wheel chairs and institutions.

His book, "No Excuses" is only released recently, and not available in all bookstores.

He has achieved all this before his university graduation. With a movie planned, starring himself as himself, Kyle Maynard will have a long journey of inspiring not only millions in America, but billions around the world and for generations to come.

He is a classic superman.