Dedicating the month of December
to the Honorable, Nelson Mandela, my encounter with him was only through
movies, the media, and a recollection of once telling an old friend that the
dictionary should bare a picture of Nelson Mandela next to the word integrity. He earnestly agreed as we sat in silence
admiring his unwavering convictions, while nearing his 27th year of
imprisonment.
Thinking about Mandela’s
integrity provoked a sober examination of loyalty to a cause in context to choosing
imprisonment over the renunciation of one’s ideas in exchange for freedom, as
everyone knows the silent answer to this examination of themselves.
