@mssakshinarula She doesn’t represent everyone of us. She represents her values, sometimes the family gets the blame deservingly and sometimes the family is good but children go rogue. Anyway, that’s unwise.
“I may speak the English Language better than the Chinese language, but I’ll never be an Englishman, not in a thousand generations.”
– Lee Kuan Yew (Founder of Singapore)
A janitor at Boston College worked the overnight shift for more than 20 years. Not because he had to. Because the university has a policy that lets employees' children attend tuition free.
Fred Vautour took the job with a plan. If he worked at Boston College, his kids could go there for nothing. All they had to do was get accepted.
All five of them did.
His oldest, Amy, started in 1998. His youngest, Alicia, graduated in May 2016. One by one, each of his children applied, got in, and earned their degree from one of the top private universities in the country without paying a dime in tuition.
The family saved an estimated $700,000.
Vautour cleaned bathrooms and mopped floors on the graveyard shift while his children slept in dorm rooms down the hall. He never asked for recognition. He just kept showing up, year after year, so they wouldn't have to carry debt.
Five kids. Five degrees. Zero dollars in tuition. All because their dad picked up a mop
My grandma kept her house clean, she cooked every day for all of us, so many days with fresh fish my great grandfather would bring home from the dock early in the morning. My grandmother raised children, she raised grandchildren, and she buried my grandfather.
The world has not given my grandmother any rewards, or praises. She never had a salary, she never wrote a resume in her entire life, she never got a raise, she never has clocked in for a job.
By today’s standards her life has been a complete and total waste of potential, all that she has done, all of it does not count.
But I have lived the life of a career woman, I have seen the inside of therapy offices, I have been inside the lives of women who by all standards are doing exactly what the world has told them they should do, I have lived it myself, and I have seen it all lived right next to me, I have seen what emptiness looks like up close. I have felt what emptiness is like, for many years it was a friend I myself kept close.
The work my grandmother did, by worldly standards is irrelevant, and yet it held our family together, it gave us a place to kill the loneliness, a place of comfort where we knew we belonged. She fed us, loved us, yelled at us for our nonsense some few times, and she sent all of us out with something solid in our hearts.
So much so that after years living in the vast loneliness of the world, after years of living what the world told me to do, I looked back on my life to find where I last had peace, comfort and meaning, and I’ll tell you what, it has never been in a cold office working long hours, dealing with office politics, deadlines and pressure, it has always been my grandma’s kitchen where the food smelled like love, and a kiss on my forehead felt like rest.
The world might have nothing to show for my grandmother, but I do.
Picture this: College management tasks teachers with organizing a cultural event honoring Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
The teachers, in turn, tasked the students. Students came up with the idea to dance to "Ooh La La, Ooh La La, Tu Hai Meri Fantasy," and the teachers didn't feel the song was inappropriate for the occasion, so they approved it. I'm sure the teachers got program approval from the management as well and they too didn't find this odd.
There must have been days of rehearsals, yet no one from the students to the teachers to the management thought it was absurd.
If you have 5 minutes today , take the time to watch this video of Dolly Parton answering questions from her fans. She was one funny lady .
#dollyparton#funny 🙏🙏🤣🤣🤣
"The world makes no sense if you think everyone is born exactly the same."
@KonstantinKisin asks @nathancofnas what motivates him to tackle controversial topics despite pushback from all sides.
His answer: ignoring natural group differences forces society to blame "mystical injustice" for inequality, meaning there will be no peace until we accept biological reality.
The imagery of India is no mere surface appearance; it is a symptom of the nation’s soul and the values that shape it. And don't forget to note the sharp turns cars of those in power make, unconcerned if they crush some people.