To Feel Special
Jim was special. He was his father’s son. His father was a famous industrialist. He was very industrious. He believed in true human capabilities, the kind of philosophy that the Western world was built on. Jim was special. Everybody told him so. Funny thing was he never felt special. He never felt like he had the ability to work miracles. His expectation was that if wise people around him thought he was special, he must really have some special powers to make things happen. For a long time, he kept asking this question to himself. He tried to magically obtain good grades at school, which never came. He tried to solve social problems, which were never solved. The more he took on these challenges, the more he was convinced that he was not special. But he was special. The fact was that the people around him were too myopic to understand his talents. What Jim needed was experience. He needed to go out into the world and see it through his own eyes, hear it through his own ear...