When I was at the University of Florida for every home game
We had get in the bus at our hotel and we would drive
right by the stadium
and we would stop at what's called the Gator walk
And every game I played there there was probably twenty to forty thousand fans
at this gator walk ready to greet us as we get off the bus
I would see all these people I got to tell you there were a lot of voices that started to hit me
One of the first voices that instantly hit me was
was pride
and arrogance because I would look out and I would see thousands of jerseys
With my number on it, I would look out and I would see
Bible verses that they were wearing because I wore them
And so for a second you thought dang I'm something
They're here for me
This is pretty cool. I must be somebody
There's a picture that I stumbled across and it's one of times
100 most influential images of all time
And it's the picture of this young girl
She's on her way from her village
to a feeding center
Not far away
And she's so malnourished and she's moving so slow that this vulture
is waiting to attack
So the young man that took this picture
I think there was probably something in his heart that
He wanted to do good. He just he wasn't sure so
So he captured this picture
And he just waited and and then the vulture got closer
So he kind of shooed the vulture off and then he walked away and the vulture would come right back and he was told
because of some of the sicknesses in the areas don't touch anybody don't do anything and
So he didn't
He didn't
He did nothing
Because apparently the cost was too much
So he left
He went back the New York Times published this photo in 1993
In 94 he won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo
Four months after this he chose to end his life
You see every single one of us we have a chance to be successful in life and you know what
I hope you are I really do. I hope you're successful
There's nothing wrong with being successful but success is just about you
But significance is about other people you see
That man that took that picture he had success that's one of the greatest honors a photographer could ever have
But obviously it wasn't enough
It wasn't enough
So what's gonna be enough for you
You see success is great
You can do a lot of things with it
But it's not going to be fulfilling
And you can never forget that sense of urgency that it's not about your timeline
It's about their timeline while you might have 30 40 50 years. They have days minutes
moments
she had moments but
it wasn't worth it
To go pick her up. It wasn't worth it to give her a hug. It wasn't worth it to tell her about the gospel
Yeah, I won a Pulitzer Prize but what does it matter
What does it matter
It doesn't and I think the greatest tragedy in life is we're going to look back one day and say I was
successful in things that don't matter
I want you to be successful, but more than anything I want you to be significant and when you live for Jesus
and you love people I believe you're gonna have a life of significance