My father was a very simple man. He was not even aware—because he had eleven children—who was in which class and where. If some visitor, some guest asked him, he would have to call me and ask, In what class are you? He never asked me, Have you passed or failed? When I came first in the whole university, I thought, He will be happy, I should inform him. I told him, I have come first in the whole university. He said, So what! That simply means your whole university is full of stupid people; otherwise, how could you manage to come first? I said, That seems to be right—and I threw the gold medal given to me by the university into the well. My father said, What are you doing? I said, I am simply destroying the gold medal, because I dont want to be first amongst thousands of stupid people. I am perfectly okay as I am. He said, But dont burn your certificates. You will need them for employment. I said, Okay. For employment I will need them, but the moment I leave employment, the first thing I am going to do is to burn them all—and thats what I did.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:17:56 +0000
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