# @officielsbn on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dam7YaTDnT4
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/76260396-officielsbn-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-10T10:00:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sébastien bassong nguena (@officielsbn) — https://gondola.cc/officielsbn

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🎂 Today I turned 40.

⚽ And somehow, I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend it than talking about football at the highest level, watching France earn their place in the World Cup semi-final.

Watching that game reminded me of something.

There comes a point in your life where you stop asking yourself:
*”Can I?”*

You start asking...

*”What am I waiting for?”*

🇫🇷 France didn’t play today like a team hoping something would happen.

They played like a team that had already decided they were going through.

💭 That’s a different mentality.

And that’s exactly where I am in my life.

Forty years has taught me that nobody is coming to give you permission.

Nobody is coming to choose you.

Nobody is coming to hand you the life you keep talking about.

At some point, you have to make a decision.

A real one.

The kind of decision where failure is no longer your identity...
...it’s just feedback.

Where fear no longer drives the car.

🎯 Purpose does.

That’s what **Take What Is Yours** has always meant to me.

Not taking from others.

✅ Taking responsibility.

✅ Taking ownership.

✅ Taking action.

Because once you remove every other option...

🔥 Something changes inside you.

You stop surviving.

You start performing.

🙏 Thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey.

Forty isn’t the finish line.

💪 It’s the strongest version of me so far.

📩 I’m sending you a message...

You better catch it.

❤️ Thank you for all your birthday messages, your support and your love. It never goes unnoticed.

#TakeWhatIsYours #40YearsYoung #WorldCup2026 #france🇫🇷

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worldcup2026, 40yearsyoung, takewhatisyours, france

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