Rocky Balboa

Rocky Balboa. The name ignites with fond memories in my mind. As soon as the name began to form in my mind, the music started playing.

Rocky remains one of the most influential movie figure in my life and the lives of many others. From the cold-war era to the recent years, Rocky had been inspiring many and the seemed as the story of good triumphing over evil.

In each of Rocky movies, he would say something to inspire people on. It goes in the line "life's (circumstances) going to give you(us) such a beating that you(we) go down but what you(we) got to do is to punch your(our) way up and the other guy down."

The good old underdog formula never loses its magic either. It always inspires and gives hope when hope seem waning, especially in such tough times as now. I watched the latest in the Rocky franchise this afternoon (again) and was all in arms cheering my childhood hero (Stallone aka Rocky) on!

It does not matter he loses but all it matters was that Rocky stood up one more time. It only matters that Rocky threw one more punch. It only matters that Rocky push his opponent to the fringe.

It sort of reminded me that it does not matter if it is tough time or crisis time now. What matters is that we punch our way out of trouble and we stood up one more time.

Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!