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How can you remember anything if you don’t write it down?’
narrow. I just bumbled along, not knowing what to do with my life, really. Whatever I did never worked out.
‘Only adults look while pretending not to. Is that better? Or is it better to ask straight out?’
‘Reading and imagining things was about the only pleasure we had in those days. I loved using my imagination.
The world hasn’t changed. It’s just as cruel as it always was.’
In business it was understood that customers who leave – for whatever reason – don’t come back.
It’s my belief that everything in this world has its own language. We have the ability to open up our ears and minds to anything and everything. That could be someone
walking down the street, or it could be the sunshine or the wind.
There are times in life when we have to make changes.’
People’s lives never stay the same colour forever. There are times when
the colour of life changes completely.
I realized that no matter how much we lost, or however badly we were treated, the fact is we are still human. All we can do is keep on going with our lives,
I can’t tell you how many times I wished I were dead. Deep down, I believed that a life has no value if a person
is not a useful member of society. I was convinced that humans are born in order to be of service to the world and to others.
I began
to understand that we were born in order to see and listen to the world. And that’s all this world wants of us. It doesn’t matter that I was never a teacher or a member of the workforce, my life had meaning.
All experience adds up to a life lived as only you could. I feel sure the day will come when you can say: this is my life.
If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.’
Anyone is capable of making a positive contribution to the world through simple observation, irrespective of circumstance.
