My dear son, if you see your school friends trying to demean you as a person, don't be angry. Many people have ill intentions to degrade you with the hope that you lose focus and get overhauled eventually. There is something they lack which God had endowed you with and you may or may not know of this precious thing shining inside you. You are a bright student, you beat them in school and other extracurricular activities. Son if you see them envying you don't react aggressively. Just surround yourself with walls of patience. Live inside the fortress of reason and understanding. Try to reciprocate their hatred with golden words but if they couldn't understand how humanely you treat them, just ignore them. Their distorted vision cannot destroy your castle of wisdom. Don't lose emotional balance, as anger will drift you to the losing corner. Maintain good standing against their shallow and rather faulty thinking. Just look forward. Don't look back. Your indifference to their envious utterances will show them how wicked their small minds are. And, treasure my words son, by the time they come to understand their mistakes you are already far ahead of them, leaving them trail behind as they run along the rough and dusty road of defeat. That is how great men of history reached at the summit of the success mountain.
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Reviewed by Abdimalik Askar
2/1/2006
That is a great story but we are Somalis. I wish we wait for two years only for Siyad Bare because he died and the person want the governement who take peacly without going all over the world.
By the way
Thanks, I am your support and I always read you articles when I saw in Hiiraan.
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