Opinion

BLOG SURF: Its your future

BLOG SURF: It’s your future

By Nana Soetantri

If you haven’t been living under a rock, then you know that Michelle Obama just delivered the speech of speeches of the 21st century. Like the Huffington Post tweeted: “This is Michelle Obama’s world.We’re just living in it.” But take a moment to wipe away the tears and decipher it for it what it meant. More than a rallying call to support Hillary Clinton’s bid for the US presidency, it was a message about her children and for all children. They hold a lot of promise, and her choice is to enable them to realize this promise, to have a leader that will guide and deliver a bright future. In one of the more moving lines of her speech, she spoke of having a time where the impossible is made possible, where the “highest and hardest glass ceiling” can be broken, and that children can now come to “take for granted that a woman can become President of the United States.” These are lofty words, and yet, it rings true. Kids, children, the youth are indeed brimming with potential.