Better Off For It
HEATH McKINNEY, MESA, USA - I cannot help but think how much I have changed over that last few months. I wake up in the morning with more confidence. I know that I can do what I put my mind to. Whereas before I only thought I could try. Now I know that trying just would not be good enough. I have the confidence to put myself behind the wheel and drive. I have the confidence to go out on more dates. I have the confidence to go after my goals and not the goals that others have for me. I've made more time to go to school and work. I know where all this confidence came from as well. It came from Zambia. It came from the success of making a full-length feature movie. It came from seeing the faces of 16 people pushing every day to make a single goal come through. It came from the faces of thousands of smiling faces in the face of poverty and limited oppportunity. I may not have changed Zambia but I know that Zambia, as a nation, has changed me. And I am better off for it.