Pull Yourself Up by Your Own Bootstraps

We were in class a few weeks back and I really got into the class lecture that day. We were talking about the six myths, but particularly about the pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one. Professor Rudd asked us to think of examples of each of the six myths and afterwards he called on us to share with the class. After each group gave their example it was time for the last group to speak. The group that was speaking chose to tell their example of the Kirk Gibson homerun from the 1988 world series. Their story consisted of the setting being the 1988 Game 1 of the world series at the Dodgers' park. It was the bottom of the ninth and the count was full. The Dodgers were behind in the game 3-2 and their was a man on first base when Kirk Gibson stepped up to the plate. Kirk had been injured to the point where during the introduction he didn't even come out on the field when they called his name. But when the game was on the line Gibson took to the batter's box and gave it his all. With the count knotted up at 3-2 he took one final swing and parked the ball over the right field fence and shocked the crowd. After rounding second base he gave one of the most memorable to fist pumps I've ever seen. This example that they gave was perfect for me in illustrating what it meant to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. One man was injured quite badly, but when he was called upon he overcame the adversity of his injury and perservered through his injury to suceed. Rudd agreed with their example and called it excellent. Simply Excellent.