YOU'RE NOT A COPY III

"Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities." - Criss Jami

Often declared, "worlds best footballer," Christiano Ronaldo became the world's most expensive player, when he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009: a transfer worth £80 million ($132 million). In May 2012, he become the first footballer to score against every team in a single season in La Liga. Ronaldo was expelled from school, after he threw a chair at his teacher. Speaking about the incident he said, "He disrespected me." Ronaldo agreed with his mother, when he was fourteen, to focus solely on football.

It will interest you to know, that Ronaldo is the first Portuguese player to reach 50 international goals, making him Portugal's top goal scorer of all time. And in December 2014, Ronaldo became the fastest player to score 200 goals in La Liga when, in his 178th La Liga
game, he scored a hat-trick against Celta Vigo; his 23rd hat-trick was also a La Lisa record. He is the only player in the history of football to score 50 or more goals in a season on five consecutive occasions.

Judy Garland said, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." Ronaldo was expelled from school, but he knew he had to keep his focus on one thing. Football. Today, that doesn't matter anymore. This is to say, your black background is the greatest backdrop on which to paint white. For you, whatever it is, identify and stay with it. You were born an original, don't die a copy.