it’s really just such an inspirational
story so you were taken from your family
when you’re was just six years old you
lost your right to be a child you’re
brainwashed to be a killing machine how
did you survive that just by luck I
guess
yeah I feel really believing that luck
luck Lots and people around you what do
you mean by luck well duh I didn’t know
that I could have survived 3 3,000 miles
from my home country to another country
and despite the fact that I didn’t have
any clothing or shoe on food to take on
a journey and blast the fact that we
were traveling in the desert it’s more
desert yeah and wildlife and getting to
that that place that country if he Oh
Pierre there’s a matter of luck for me
because many people didn’t survive the
journey did you make it there and
because I made it there I counted that
as one of my one of my treasure in life
that I treasure every day are celebrated
and then being in Ethiopia suffer from
diseases and being crippled including my
intestine to the point that I lost my
mind and feeding and human human dance
perhaps and survivor run away again from
war and participate in in a war and war
that I would describe as a
from an old war there’s nothing to do
that made that all was in mine will
never be mine so I think I’m lucky yeah
and being in this beautiful country yeah
I’m lucky so I read your book and
there’s a passage in there that really
resonated with me and would you read it
for us yeah I would love for you to
share that with everyone
I never completed the rites of passage
that I require to become Dinka man and
so in the eyes of some of the people I
am half made I’m also half made in
estimation of some Australians to those
who cannot accept me as their countrymen
because of the darkness of my skin well
I started my life and my assented
English I know I am home though yes I
have a difficult life I’m proud of some
of the things I have done and ashamed of
others but I own all of it and I have
reconciled with all of it that’s why I
so dang many people grapple with demons
from their past whether it be a
traumatic childhood or abusive
relationship or addiction how did you
reconcile with your past I to be honest
guys I I celebrate ever everything about
my past
I celebrated my failure in life every
single one of them if I didn’t score a
goal today I’ll go and celebrate later
I think they are example of accepting
way going the direction and for me my
life was horror still an aura but in
order for me to move forward I don’t
need to complain about it I don’t need
to project that onto people
I want to own it be responsible for
everything that is whether I made it
consciously or unconscious decision in
that ‘god i don’t think blaming other
people for your ancestors fault it’s a
good idea because we live in this moment
and this moment is what actually
determined you so you need to change
that culture and the culture that i’m
talking about it’s the fact that if your
father with the fisherman just like my
dad was a fisherman and you were the bad
fisherman i don’t need to be a bad
fisherman i need to be a good fisherman
I need to improve my way of life so it
came back to the idea of being truthful
to yourself and you know in this world
not many people are quite stressful to
themself
yeah everything doesn’t go according to
the human humanity when I talk about
humanity is a different topic a
different subject and yeah I think I
have said your question yeah it did
so there’s a saying that goes you have
to be holding yourself to see life as a
whole this concept of wholeness of
completeness you talked about it you
know accepting and being responsible for
your good and your bad and just being
you what does being whole mean to you
and why is it important well I forgive
myself I have forgiven my my enemies I
don’t have enemies now and if there’s an
enemy out there please show your hand so
that will make peace I think if we look
at my past I have 19 sha’ban all in my
body that is meaning that I’m disabled
I was shot on my testicle I will blame
that on somebody if I have to but I
can’t do that
I was shot by with a gun that I didn’t
make so I can’t blame the man who may
they got I can go on and on and on again
but do I really have time for that
I think I’m responsible for today and
tomorrow and for me to forgive others
and forgive myself to be able to achieve
my my inner strength or spirit to
capture that woman it’s time for
everyone to reflect on what they can do
to other people because you must come
second you don’t come first and and I
mean you gotta be your
model for yourself and then others can
be you can just follow you and they you
can become their role models because
there’s no role model in societies that
are actually not a role model for
themselves that’s why you see a lot of
problem with people that would think
they a role model because they for mine
and there’s a lot of problem in human
the human humans have defects but you
gotta be a role model for your surfers
you got to start doing the writing first
if it is not good enough for you and
then it’s not good enough for me if it
is something that compromises your
position
something that perhaps I could blame on
you that you responsible for the bullet
that shot me and then don’t do it just
be a good person because I know if I
have to do exactly what other people
have done for me I’ll be fighting for
the rest of my life I would die and come
back and try to find a dude that shot me
and Judith touching me I’ll come back
again and try to do it and I that cycle
is what guitars to this place as
humanity cycle or repeating the same
things over again and it’s wrong all
wrong things there’s no need to repeat
things just think about others before
yourself what they’re going through the
trauma that is going through there they
bought it body their mind think about
think like today I’m wearing a soft
maybe you guys are not wearing it it’s
I simply stopped to become an oppressor
I will never press ENTER 1 and assume
you are in the position that we talking
about today
you are in position now whether its
moral or legal position and then try to
justify that why is it important to you
and why is it not important to me so
when you put yourself first you put a ma
you put a marker and that marker must be
a right mark but when you don’t put
yourself talk about others when you
don’t even know who you are
and then basically you make a lot of
mistake and that’s why today we’re
making a lot of mistakes in everything
that we do in our life we copied from a
copycat who copied from another copycat
well copy from another copycat and that
is a problem so try to be whole try to
be yourself try to do everything that is
nice and I think everybody else would be
happy try to be like a child perhaps try
to ask question why are we in these mess
final an answer that truthfully don’t
shy away
don’t shy why we in this mess why did I
come to this country how’s that question
you’re my friend try to have that
question maybe there’s a solution that
you got a solution guys and I know you
are beautiful people try to think for
the solution as yourself question got to
put an end to this mess and I mean you
gotta start from yourself and then I’m
second so dang I’ve learned yesterday
that you’re about to enter a new chapter
of your life you’re gonna be a father
so speaking about role models
speaking about seeing the world in the
eyes of a child what is the world you
want to create for your child
ah I’m lucky man quite lucky think about
getting shot there and be able to have a
child rather than a miracle and you
sound like I’m excited but I’m also
worried I’m worried about the
environment that my child will be
brought up even though my child will be
born in the most beautiful country you
know what well we still have so much to
go we still have to keep other people
rights
don’t deny other people rights so for me
my child will be born as a warrior I
will fight for a right of others will
know exactly what I mean to be human my
child will be white and it will be black
and that child is a balance and you
can’t tell him go back to where you come
from because he is from Australia and
he’s Australian
that is a child that will make a
difference will that be so I’m excited
to guys and I hope you pray for my child
to be born I don’t know the sex of the
child yet so I will let you know any
with italian-born dang thank you so much
you’re not only whole but you are such
an inspiration thank you very much thank you thank you God