JEREMY LIN: An Inspiration

To be honest , I am not so much into basketball. I am more into Spirituality than into Sports. But I watch NBA games once in awhile as I understand the mechanics having originally lived in a country where basketball is more popular than football, baseball and hockey. I got interested in the life story of Jeremy Lin as it is not only interesting, but also inspirational as it is motivational. I said so because , obviously it was such a humble beginning for him as he literally started from the bottom. Basketball stardom wasn't served to him on a silver platter. He had to work hard for it, he had to struggle, experience a lot of hardships, some setbacks and rejections. And now everything paid off. Slowly, he is becoming an icon as an Asian hero of Sports. His name is setting a new trend in vocabularies such as "Linsanity , Linvinsible , Lincredible etc." All because He is getting there, slowly but surely.
   Born Jeremy Shu-How Lin, an American professional basketball player , plays with New York Knicks of the NBA. Lin is one of the few Asian Americans in NBA history in the league to be of Chinese or Taiwanese descent. His biography reports that Lin was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in a Christian family in the San Francisco Bay Area of Palo Alto. His parents, by the name Gie-Ming and Shirley , emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in the mid-1970's.

   His life story proves that with determination, perseverance and hard work, everything is possible with God.