A little something about me

Dear little one

In this letter I want to tell you about myself. But let me remind you - you don't have to start using this information until you are ready. And when you are ready you wont need to be told. It will all enter automatically

I am writing about this topic, because at times (when I was in my teens and twenties) I have felt the need to know certain things about my own father - that was the time I needed the information!

Your father was as a person who, caught by circumstance, was unable to navigate through the early part of his life in the most efficient way. As I see it now, the big turning point was when he failed to get 50% score in his graduation

However, all that did to him was to make his life more interesting. When I close my eyes for a minute and imagine, that I had top-scored at all levels, studied in the best colleges, got picked off the campus for the most plum job - I end up waking up feeling like, naa .. too easy.. I am made for tougher stuff

Now - that's deep. I don't expect you to understand the above. Many adults today as grown up as me would fail to understand it, and some would never understand it ever in their lifetimes

This is just the variance of human nature. All humans are not created in this world optimized to score good marks and take on plum jobs. Each one is motivated by a different goal. Let me give you a better example than myself, the world's most famous college drop-out today

This person's name is Bill Gates. He is the founder of the world's biggest company, Microsoft. There are a couple of incidents I have heard of / read about him. One, when he was a young boy of around 5, and one when he was in his teens. The first one was, once he approached a stranger holding a piggy bank in his hands. Said he to the stranger: If you lend me $5 today, when I am grown up I will use all the money I have collected from people like you to build a company. At that time I will give you a 2% stake of it

At 35 years of age, I have by now seen people from a few walks of life. Bill Gates adds to my experience. I now compare my life with others, and have been able to draw a few insights of how my life could have been better or worse

People like Mr. Gates have early childhood knowledge of how businesses are built. They have been in that environment. They know how things work, or in the process of knowing. As for you, it would depend on how soon what is said here makes sense and "click"'s in your brain. Of course, there are many other factors, as merely by reading this and understanding it, the "environment" will not be created for you auto-magically

Coming to the second fact about Bill Gates. As a teenager he worked in a summer in a library. This librarian later describes - that as a boy Mr. Gates had a compulsive habit of arranging things - he would classify, sort and arrange books very, very meticulously.

People exist in this world who are experienced enough to know a child's destiny by just observing him. I reckon such people distilled their knowledge by such study and knowledge

This has grown to be a long letter. And I have hardly begun telling you about myself. Actually I am feeling a bit ashamed now talking about myself. Let me close it here and take it piece-meal. You already have too much to process in your mind


- Your most loving pappa