By Philip Pai, March 5, 2020 — I remember, you know, when I was young. I attended the college, and the high school, and the primary school. When I was nine years old I had the older brother who graduated from the high school or college who got a good degree at graduate school. And that day I always dreamed– if I was in that age, I’m really happy – I would graduate from college, I would graduate from high school- I really admired him. But right now, my age was more than 30 or 50 years old.
But I saw a lot of people- they didn’t go to college, or they didn’t get a high school degree, but they still have success in a lot of fields. Such as the people who played the basketball and such as maybe a few weeks ago the guy called Kobe Bryant- they didn’t go to college. They’re very successful in the sports field. And other people—Mr. Edison—he successful at the electric field. And another guy they called Vincent—he made the locomotives run during the war. And Mr. Bill Gates, I think he didn’t graduate from Harvard University. They still have really great success at their field.
In my mind, if I were young, I don’t want to go to high school, or I don’t want go to college, or I don’t want get a special degree—I just want to try my best at something, at that field. Maybe just do one subject like science or sports or another field—I think it’s better and successful for me. But right now I am older, I don’t have so many chances, I don’t have so many opportunity to today. If someday I were offered children—but now my children are grown up [and] I don’t have a chance to teach them—if I have young children, I will tell them to do something you like, to do something you do, you don’t do everything. You think you are successful in your field, so I say that gives you a good chance to succeed.