THE LONG RETURN: HAITI, HISTORY & SUPERMAN.
THE LONG RETURN: HAITI, HISTORY & SUPERMAN
A November reflection on a victorious birthday.
December is the month the body exhales, where the spirit gathers its memories.
Where the heart finally has space to absorb what the year has revealed.
December comes not as an ending, but as a quiet throne, a chamber of reflection.
A season of soft hibernation and deep remembrance. It is the month where victories echo. Where ancestral footsteps grow louder.
Where everything that rose in November finally settles into understanding.
This December, the Haitian women soccer team qualified for the world cup. I enter with a light heart, with reverence, and with profound gratitude for my life, my country, and for the men and women whose sacrifices continue to shape Haiti’s destiny.
November, for Haitians, is never just another month.
For me born on November 18 it is the month where my own birth aligns with the spirit of a nation that refused to die.
The Triple Meaning of November 18.
November 18, 1803 Haiti defeats the French at the Battle of Vertières, breaking the last chain of colonial domination.
November 18, 1995 my birth, a lifetime later, carrying the same sovereign fire.
November 18, 2025 Haiti qualifies for the World Cup again after 52 years, ending the longest drought in our football history.
Three victories. Three rebirths. Three timelines woven into one energy.
To make this read even more fantastic l must introduce a super man whom I honor and respect dearly.
This is the thread that ties into a Superman's journey together.
The reason why his story matters, why I am writing this, and why Haiti’s qualification is not just a sports headline. Even the women's team qualifies to go to the World cup.
It is a spiritual full-circle moment. A return. A resurrection.
Steven “Superman” Lorrius: The Mission Before the Miracle
Long before Haiti returned to the world stage…
Steven was already walking this mission.
First Trip to Haiti (2014) — The Awakening
Steven traveled to Haiti to reinstate sports, sitting down with the President of Haiti
Michel Martelly with Benson Joseph at his side. This Sports Campaign had Steven speak on all the top radios in Haiti. While on the biggest Sports Radio in Haiti, with Millions of People listening. He spoke about what he noticed. It was the World Cup at that time. During that trip he witnessed something unexpected. Haitians everywhere in Brazil and Argentina jerseys, faces painted, streets alive in yellow and green. He did not even know the country loved sports at that scale.
That moment sparked a new dream in him. That he would not just focus on competing for Haiti and reinstating sports. It was to do anything in his power to help Haiti reach a World Cup. Many people called into the Radio that day to support Steven's Dream. From there, Benson Joseph and him began The Haitian Athlete Association. He began building that future immediately, introducing new athletic disciplines rugby, gymnastics, swimming, skiing searching for young talent that could carry a flag forward.
Second Trip (2014) — Rebuilding Culture
Steven returned to Haiti for an International Basketball Tournament. As a Member of the CBT.
Steven helped bring organized basketball into local spaces in Haiti. Bringing Haitian Athletes from the USA to travel to Haiti creating an international bridge. To one day inspire the Nation to have a Basketball team.His commitment deepened the youth, the culture, the rebirth of athletic pride.
Third Trip (2015) — The Children
Steven Partnered with Brooks to bring sneakers to children who had none, but the journey from the Dominican Republic to deliver the sneakers to Haiti was anything but simple. On the road while in the Dominican Republic, he was met with life changing obstacles till his arrival. Eight separate stops, each one confronted by armed bandits demanding the Brooks Sneakers. With nothing but his voice and conviction, Steven had to defend the mission disarming each situation with his words alone.
Against all odds he delivered the sneakers. No giving one Brooks Sneaker to any of the armed Bandits.
No matter the obstacles Steven never gave up.
Jamaica Training Chapter (2015–2016)
After completing his humanitarian trips to Haiti, Steven traveled to Jamaica to train alongside the legendary Usain Bolt. This period sharpened his speed science, refined his mechanics, and exposed him to elite-level athletic discipline. Steven was doing so well in Jamaica was offered a multi million dollar deal from Adidas. He turned down the deal. Knowing he was building the Lorrius Brand to compete with Adidas. Steven made a different choice. He chose to go home to build his community.
Not for the fame, but for legacy and truth.
The Decade in the Lab (2016–2025)
Once he returned to the U.S., Steven entered a ten-year period of self-quarantine, Intermittent Fasting, self-training, and deep experimentation. This was his isolation era. A season of radical discipline mirroring Haiti’s own 52-year journey back to the World Cup.
Steven now serves as Vice President of the TI KÉ BEL Foundation, the nonprofit I founded.
Together, we work on initiatives to uplift our community from mechanical arts programs, to beauty campaigns, to healing workshops, to the work we do daily on the ground.
For a full decade, he devoted himself to:
• Teaching speed science and founding Kid Energy
• Creating movement and healing programs
• Serving elders, youth, and athletes
• Developing his own formulas, remedies, and products
• Building a lifestyle that aligned with the mission he began in Haiti
• Training his body and mind without distractions, without shortcuts, without outside noise
This ten-year commitment was not an accident. It became the spiritual mirror of Haiti’s long road back to the world stage. A resurrection that required endurance, humility, and faith. Today, after this decade of devotion, Steven stands prepared to compete again not as an athlete returning to the world, but as a man who built his own world while the world was not watching.
Haiti made the World Cup on November 18, the anniversary of Vertières, my birthday the same month Steven’s decade of work came into public visibility.
It is not a coincidence. It is alignment. It is a remembrance.
It is a sign that Haiti is still here, still fighting, still rising.
The people connected to Haiti spiritually, ancestrally, purposefully are rising with it.
December: The Quiet Bloom
After a month of battle-energy, November hands us December the soft season.
A season of internal growth, of hibernation, of preparing for the new year that spiritually begins in April. December asks us to breathe. To take inventory.
To sit with the victories that took lifetimes to arrive. For all of us who carry this lineage of survival, sovereignty, and resurrection in our bones.
A Call to Support
As Steven continues his training and humanitarian work, I encourage everyone reading this to: learn his story, share his mission, and support the work that is helping rebuild Haiti from the ground up.
Maintain The Secret
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