Going From Homeless to CEO: The No Excuse Handbook by Rose Cathy Handy

Going From Homeless to CEO: The No Excuse Handbook by Rose Cathy Handy

Author:Rose Cathy Handy [CATHY HANDY, ROSE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SEL000000
ISBN: 9781596599796
Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation
Published: 2012-02-01T00:00:00+00:00


We often forget to remember the joy of being alive

I grew up in a big family of eleven children. But we were constantly more than fifteen children because my mom fostered other kids every year. Of course it always looked like whatever food we had was not enough because it had to be broken down into so many little pieces to feed everybody. Until I became a teenager, I had to share a bed with at least one sibling or one of the foster children. What kid wouldn’t hate it? Every child always wishes to be the only child and not have to share their parent’s attention. We were living in a small town with a population of less than fifty thousand. I never went anywhere on a trip until I was a teenager.

The summertime was good and bad. It was exciting to see all the cousins who lived in the city, who came back home for the summer vacation. It was a great opportunity to see the latest fashions, to learn the city language, and to find out some new dance moves. But it was also very bad, because we always felt inferior to them. Living in the city is where the light is, and in this case, it was actually true. Modern electricity only came to our town when I was fourteen years old. So until that time, I never knew what a light bulb looked like, let alone electrical light. It also meant that when the kids from the city were talking about cold drinks, I didn’t know what they were referring to since I had never seen a fridge. I had to listen to the city kids go on and on about how good their lives were, and this was an annual beating for my self-esteem. Why should I be the one living this miserable town life? I never went anywhere. I lived with chickens, darkness, and horrible kids who didn’t even realize that we were all doomed in this hole we called a town. I was angry, bitter and judgmental. My anger was directed at my parents most of the time. I was blaming them for making me stay in that town, for letting me be born in this miserable place where I would forever live in the dark. My knowledge was limited because I couldn’t see what other people in the city saw. I felt so miserable, so poor, so dumb and so useless.

My parents decided one time to finally take me on a trip to the city. They said we would go visit my big sister who lived in the biggest city, and I could see her at work. We took the coach instead of the train, and my mom managed to keep me awake during the whole trip so I could see everything en route to the big city since it was my first time out of town. I was convinced that we were the most primitive people in the whole country. I expected everything else to be bigger, grander and more beautiful than everything from my town.



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