Ya, I know … it is more than presumptious of me to think that the former President of the United States of America would read this, but still… it is the celebration of his birthday and I wanted to write something special for the occasion.

Beyond any politics or public service, studies or profesional background, we are all humans. What it is left after we no longer held a position are the memories and the relationships we crafted with others. Our legacy, what we believed and fought for. Our spirit and our teachings, our warm or kind nature, if we had one.

I like Michelle and Barrack Obama very much. Their work, their spirit and the way they managed to bring a change in the most difficult place to be change in the whole wide world, US. A change for the most vulnerable, the ones not having all the advantages in their favour. The former President himself was a change, the first African American on the service. The first to address issues from the Pandora box that no one wanted or had the courrage to address before. To march on untraveled and dangerous paths. To stand for justice and equality for all people, regarding of their age, race or background. He managed to be the most powerful man on Earth and yet to remain a loving father and husband. His stories regarding family time in the White House are funny and warm, natural and simple, as the ones of any other family. In life sometime we all could use a break from taking things or ourselves too serious and trying to have a good laugh.

I hope that many other leaders have found a model in him and all the work he has done and continues to do. If we surround ourselves with people better than us, more talented or hardworking, with good moral values, chances are to brings others along with us that have the same qualities. And than the effect of our actions will be much bigger and we will feel that we are rewarded with things greater than material posesion. We would be able to tell that we’ve done our job and we made a difference. Because at the end of the day we all want to be valued and to feel that we’ve make someone life’s better.

I will end with my favourite saying of him: no matter what happen, the sun will still rise tomorrow.