What's the most inspirational true story that you know?

Answer 1

The story of my life... I guess I'm a legend in my own mind! :-)

Answer 2

My ex was grew up poor from a similar messed up background as mine. He stayed in trouble but he is extremely intelligent and he ended up taking an academic scholarship to college. He played basketball in high school and continued in college until he got into a really bad accident and everyone was surprised that he even lived through it. The doctors told him that he would never be able to walk again. But because he is as stubborn as they come and refuses to take no for an answer (that's actually how we started dating..lol) he proved them wrong. Now, you could never tell except for a few scars. He's shown me that it doesn't matter where you come from, or what others might tell you what you can or cant do, if you really want to, you will find a way. He's been my inspiration from the day I met him, and even though we aren't together any more, he will always be an important part of who i am :)

Answer 3

(it's inspirational for others, I'm not religious so it doesn't apply to me, but it's a really sweet story)
My parents' first kid was boy. Then they had a girl and then adopted a boy from S. Korea. When their first born was 11 he got hit by a car while riding his bike. He died in the hospital. A year later they adopted me. I was ready to leave Korea but for some reason I didn't leave for months. THen when I finally came to the states I arrived at their home on the anniversity of his death 2 years later. They say I'm a "gift" from him to bring them happiness...so they call me joy

Answer 4

The story of Jesus Christ. From Genesis 1 to the end of Revelation. It's a true story and so much more...Try and turn to The Bible (which in Greek means "the book") in a very open, spiritual way and it'll be so much more than a true story - the words on it's pages are living...

Answer 5

Apollo 13. The unimaginable happened and cunning, courage, and teamwork got them home. Can you just imagine having all those odds against you and still finding your way out?

Oh, and I almost forgot. The 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team is a close second.

But now that I think about it.... there is this couple in our church who adopted these two babies who are totally disabled because their mothers were crack addicts. The kids will never be able to walk or talk and may not live very long. Can you imagine that? A couple that adopted these kids?


O.K. I will go with the 3rd one.

Answer 6

When I was at college, in the UK, we were visited by a woman who gave up her job as a lawyer to help the homeless children in Guatemala. At the time it gave me hope that there were people like her.

There are a lot of unrecognised heroes like these and I wish I knew what motivations drive them when everything today is given monetary value.

Answer 7

I agree with the story of Dave Pelzer, his books are awesome and the horrific abuse he overcame(at the hands of his own mother) is so amazing~anyone who has overcome any form of abuse is an inspiration.

Answer 8

One of the insprational stories that I know is the story of Sanders Draper:
I was brought up near to 'Sanders Draper' school, and close to a pub called 'The Good Intent' - whose sign is a picture of a spitfire aircraft.
see: http://sol.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk/pages/ULTRALAB/BNR/Schools/SandersDraper.html

Also, the Story of Oskar Schindler
I heard about him long before Steven Spielberg made his film

Answer 9

I think Simon Weston's story is inspirational.

Answer 10

The story of Dave Pelzer, an abused child. He has a few bestselling books out about his life.

Answer 11

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.

Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.

This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.

However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap