Out of all the people you have met in your life, who's achievements most impress you?
For me, my grandmother on my dad's side is one of the most amazing people I have ever come across, the fact she managed to acheive what she did, with the circumstances of her life is just amazing.
Her husband came back from the Korean war hooked on junk and never recovered, Od'ing a few years later, but not before he got 2 of his kids hooked on the stuff as well. There is a famous family story about my grandfather taking my dad out for "heroin and prostitutes" for his 16th birthday.
At 89 she just stopped lecturing on medicine, has traveled the world with Doctors without borders for decades working some of the worst regions of the planet.
That family is a complete disaster, drugs, alcohol, long term jail sentences you name it, yet through all of that she managed to travel the world healing the poor, the sick, the uncared for.
So what about you?
2007-11-29
13:43:21
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Gawdless Heathen
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