Ne kadar bel altı bir söz değil mi? Ama bir o kadar da doğru.
Beynimizi ne kadar sık kulandığımızla ilgili değil midir başarımız? Katkısı yok diyenler muhtemelen çok oturanlardır.
Bu başarılı sözü söyleyen kişinin de Amerikalı “Güzin Abla” karakterinin olması şaşırtıcı değildir.
Ann Landers 47 yıl boyunca çeşitli gazetelerde yazı yazmış bir Güzin Abla, 2002’de vefat etmiştir ancak web sitesi “Adive by Ann Landers” adı ile halen yaşamaktadır.
Ann LAnders aynı zamanda aşağıdaki dizeleri de kaleme almıştır. Babasını kaybetmiş ve aynı zamanda 2 çocuk babası birisi olarak da yüreğimi sızlatır.
MY FATHER
When I was:
4 years old: My daddy can do anything.
5 years old: My daddy knows a whole lot.
6 years old: My dad is smarter than your dad.
8 years old: My dad doesn’t know exactly everything.
10 years old: In the olden days when my dad grew up, things were sure different.
12 years old: Oh, well, naturally, Dad doesn’t know anything about that. He is too old to remember his childhood.
14 years old: Don’t pay any attention to my dad. He is so old-fashioned!
21 years old: Him? My Lord, he’s hopelessly out-of-date.
25 years old: Dad knows a little bit about it, but then he should because he has been around so long.
30 years old: Maybe we should ask Dad what he thinks. After all, he’s had a lot of experience.
35 years old: I’m not doing a single thing until I talk to Dad.
40 years old: I wonder how Dad would have handled it. He was so wise and had a world of experience.
50 years old: I’d give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him. Too bad I didn’t appreciate how smart he was. I could have learned a lot from him.