“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

If You Think You Are Beaten, You Are

I remember when I was still in first year high school.  Our adviser would post all the names of the class who got good grades from Top 1 to Top 50. We are fifty in the class and it was embarrassing but it was true that out of the 50 students I was always number 49.  I had a very poor self-esteem then, I believe that it was because of poverty and the poor condition of my two front teeth were the major causes of my very poor self-perception.  In spite of my poor school performance, my father would still pretend to be very...