Having no Mom and no Dad did present some disadvantages, but if you look at it differently you can see some of the disadvantages can be turned into advantages. Let me explain how one of them turned out for me. Since I was living with an alcoholic just out of prison we were very poor, so poor that we had no electricity or gas, luckily the apartment was centrally heated with steam heat from radiators. Since we had no electricity there was no TV or radio, so what's a kid to do? Read, read by kerosene lamps. Of course we didn't have any money to buy and books, but I did earn enough doing choirs for neighbors to buy comic books. How can reading comic books turn into an advantage? It doesn't really matter what you read, comic books help you develop your reading skills, they also require that you interpret the visual images along with the narrative. So what did I gain? I had one of the highest reading scores through out grammar school. That's just one example of turning a disadvantages into an advantage. What in your life did you change to turn a disadvantage into an advantage?
When I was born my mother abandoned me and my half-sisters, never to be seen again. My father remains unknown. So there I was coming out of the womb destined to be a casualty or a fighter. I chose the latter. The cornerstone of my humble success has always been optimism, and as Buddha suggests, "Be your own light". This blog is dedicated to any person who has neither a Mom or Dad or even worse being part of a negative dysfunctional family. My belief is that you really don't need a Mom or Dad to succeed, you just need to make smart decisions at critical forks in the road of your life. In this blog I will chronical various stages of my life and make suggestions that worked for me. I want others who have had a similar experiences to contribute to this blog so that we can share our collective knowledge to build a rewarding successful life regardless of your circumstances.
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