"...Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task." from his inaugural speech
Obama just gave his inaugural address and talked about we are entering an era of responsibility, that it is the responsibility of each of us to work toward the common goal of achieving our dream. We might face new challenges and we may need new tools to meet our challenges; but the values of what we stand for, that have made us different should sustain. I guess it is our soul that we have to protect and not get sucked by the world of greed and self-fishness. It is also in our life that there is something that we have to work for and not take for granted. There are struggles that we have to overcome, there are true effort to make and price that we have pay in order to achieve what we are hoping for...
