Relationships
“My friends are always telling me how amazing my son is, and how proud they would be to have a son like mine. I never worry about how he is doing, because I know he is always doing his best, and he is always in the top 1% of anything he puts his mind to. Some people think he is just gifted. Yet, I know it’s because he worked for every single thing he has.
When he was a child, he used to always get teased, beat up, and abandoned by his classmates. It was a lonely childhood with no friends at school and no one who understood him at home. His father had to work long hours to support the family. I just did not know how to raise him. I thought he was just a wild, crazy, and misbehaved child who never listened to anyone. I could not teach him anything because I did not know how to communicate to him in a way that reached him.
He had to learn and do everything on his own. And I think that’s why he is so great at teaching and mentoring other people, because he always remembers what it was like growing up and not knowing how to live. I think, in some ways, he is creating his program for that boy he used to be—that boy who stayed in crisis centers, suffered in hospitals, and ran around the streets. He’s telling that child, ‘Hey. Everything is going to be all right. I’m going to get you out of here. I’m going to give you a better life. I’m going to show you that you are so much more than what you are being in this world. Get Up!’”
-Olivia Chang