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Rwanda Hosts the UCI Road World Championships 2025: A Personal Reflection on a Historic Moment

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By Marc Reflects | Blog Post | 26 September 2025 First Impressions: Pride in the Details When I first heard that Rwanda would host the UCI Road World Championships , I felt a mixture of pride and disbelief. For the first time in the history of this prestigious cycling event, Africa is in the spotlight. Kigali, our capital, a city I know well, the roads I’ve walked and biked on would now be the stage for world-class athletes from every corner of the globe. As someone who has followed cycling and observed Rwanda’s growing love for the sport, this moment feels deeply personal. It is not just a sporting event, it is a statement. Rwanda is showing the world that it is capable of hosting international events with precision, professionalism, and passion. It is telling young Rwandans, especially girls, that dreams once thought far away are now within reach. Walking through Kigali during the championships, the city had transformed. Flags fluttered in the wind, banners displayed the UCI logo ...
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  We Were Not Born Just to Survive Marc Reflects I have come to believe that many of us—especially in places where struggle is normalized—are trained to aim low, not out of laziness, but out of necessity. We survive because survival is the immediate task, not because it is the full story of what we were meant to be. I’ve seen this pattern in the lives of youth who hustle daily with no margin for rest, in mothers who stretch every coin and every prayer, in children raised to be quiet, respectful, and unquestioning—because questioning hunger, rent, or pain feels like complaining against life itself. But what if we pause and ask: Were we really born just to survive? This reflection is not just about me. It’s about us—those of us renting dreams, raising children in scarcity, starting businesses with zero capital, or carrying childhood wounds like invisible luggage. I write this for the ones who are tired of simply making it through and feel the ache of wanting more. The Po...
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Finding Wisdom and Folly: Reflections on Suffering and Pleasure

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  By Marc Reflects | September 2025 I keep coming back to a saying that has lingered in my mind: "On trouve le sage là où il y a la souffrance et le sot là où on s'amuse." "You find the wise where there is suffering, and the fool where there is amusement." At first glance, it feels almost like a rule carved into human experience: suffering breeds wisdom, pleasure fosters folly. But the more I reflect, the more I realize that this is not just a simple truth—it is a mirror of human nature, revealing our contradictions, our blind spots, and the choices we make in response to life’s pressures. The Quiet Classroom of Hardship Suffering is often silent, personal, and unavoidable. A difficult childhood, the loss of a loved one, chronic illness, or economic hardship—these are experiences no one seeks, yet they are teachers in ways that comfort rarely can be. I’ve noticed in my own life and in observing others that wisdom tends to emerge in the cracks of disco...
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