Jordan's Induction Speech
59Jordan speech was Perfect!
Society and its socially accepted philosophies put an unseen pressure on people to be humble, to always bring God into these worldly mundane things that really have nothing to do with God. Jordan's speech told us the truth, it made the Hall of Fame worldly, not heavenly as many would like to paint it. Jordan talked about things as they were and are. He didn't try and draw some historical analogy or biblical analogy to his basketball career. He didn't tell us that God has touched him because he's the greatest ever. He didn't act like he was rehersing to be a minister (David Robinson) or tell those cotton picking stories that tell us things are much better now and we should be happy the lord has changed thing for us.
In a way Jordan keep things simple, and worldly; you work hard, don't let negative people or negative spoken words define your reality, use your ego (we all have one) as power and define your on reality! In another way Jordan made things complicated; when jordan spoke about all the event that added "logs to his fire" most cried pettiness, egotistical, arrogance, jerk, etc.. But these events that Jordan told as a comedian was a real teaching tool and the stories didn't include the age old crutch of leaning on the lord. In Jordan stories you found you had to dig deep inside of yourself. Somewhere in the bible it says "the kingdom of heaven is within". Jordan wanted you to find it like he did. Later in the bible Jesus makes a statement "Ye shall do greater things than I". These statements and the stories of Jordan forces us to take responsibility. They force us to use the intelligence that God gave us and to engage in the hard work of eating right (all you obese people), exercising right (all you lazy people), getting the proper rest (all you party animals, me included), and engaging in things that calls for discipline (we hate discipline).
Most of us applaud like crazy when a person of great skill talks all that glory to God stuff. Even a person with no skills and no intelligence can talk that glory to God stuff and draw monsterous applause. Thre is nothing wrong with giving God credit but in this society we over do it. We put everything on God and take all our problems (silliy things) to God because we are lazy, afraid to step into the shoes God made for us, afraid of the responsibilities, and afraid to have dominion over the earth as God has ordained. If God said let man have dominion over the earth ( and She did, God is a She), that means God knew we had the proper tools to do so, the proper knowledge to do so, that means God trusted us, yet we still try and side step our duty by constantly bugging God at ever turn, by srceaming Her name when we lack the ability to express a thing or just want to get an appluse. Jordan was up to the challenge. He took dominion over the basketball court, tirelessly working on his game with the tools God gave him to get better, eating right, exercising consistantly, adhering to discipline, and taking the responsibility on defence, offence, or of the last shoot not wondering if it would go in but having faith because faith with work is dominion. Yeah, God gave Jordan a gift but Jordan put in work himself to develop those gifts. Humans deserve credit for their exceptional works because God gave us all some special gift and after that, its up to us. Many of us do nothing with our gifts and you know what God did to those who didn't use their gift, She took it back and gave it to someone who would use it properly.
We can learn from kanye West song when he says before all the money and the fame it was just "me and my ego". Our ego helps us believe in our self when others are putting us down. It stops us from quitting and pushes us forward saying F--- what others are saying. We need our ego, hell God gave us the ego alone with the other parts of our personality. People without developed egos have low self-esteem. This society always teaches us to be humble. This term is associated with meek, submissive, demote, apologetic, and lower. I ll never teach my youth to be those term.
For most of Jordan's career he has been politically correct, saying what he thought he should say (at least in public), doing what was best for his endorsments, the team, the and organization. On induction night he let it all out and he did it with style and comedy. He checked Isaiah, Gervin, and others for being haters and let the watching world know haters only contribute. He checked Jerry Krause for saying organizations win championship, he checked owners for not letting him play because (lets face it) they wanted a lottery pick, he checked the media for all its negetivity, former coaches, players some of which we never knew or forgot, he even called out the hall on an economic issue (ticket are $1000.00 now).
Many writers say Jordan was wrong for re-calling these events. To me Jordan should have mentioned more, like how he played for 3 million when the world new (and Krause & company) he was worth ten times that, how he talked Scottie Pippen into not holding out when Scottie wanted to be paid fair (Kukoc got more money), and how the greedy business men broke up the team because they could care less about championship, the fans, or the players, all they wanted was profit.
Let us take with us a few lessons. (1). Always believe in yourself. (2). Take on the respomsibility that God has place on you. (3). Use all haterism as fuel for your fire. (4) Don't over do it but be sure to keep your ego active and define reality for yourself. Never let others define your reality and create your script, create your own script and define your own reality. (5). You don't have to be humble as they teach us to be. Sometimes be like Mike and speak from the heart, speak the truth, speak without the covering of flowery words and political correctness, and you'll be rewarded with knowing someone can learn from your story in the raw, as it is or as it was, not how you or others would have liked it to be. Learn to take things as they are and not as we would like them to be.
Micheal Jordan is overly competitive so naturally he's still competing trying to prove he is right since he can no longer just dunk over them.
In the words of some wise person "it is what it is".
