New Year's Eve 2016. My rugby son started playing Beethoven on the piano. He just made a written presentation of my company's activities during the crisis, with a SWOT analysis and his own vision of its further development (In English, of course!): An assignment on the subject of "business". Recently, we recalled whole series of his angry cries 3 years ago: "I don't need this English school!", "Stupid German!", "I won't go!" We smile and shake our heads, not believing that this was possible!
Now my son is in his senior year at a British boarding school - King William's College. It is already clear that he will not go to Oxford and it is not known whether he will become the president of a large corporation. But he has ALREADY become a normal person: well-mannered, sociable, empathic. He is not rude or grimace. It is pleasant to sit with him at a dinner party: he jokes subtly and knows a lot, he has something to tell the interlocutor. You can discuss politics and theater with him.
Yesterday he recalled school expeditions, how they pitched tents and sang football ditties (he is also on the football team). And his last portrait by Picasso is a professional work. Yes, he is also an artist. Diversified personality. And THIS I call SUCCESS.
Just 3 years ago, nothing of the above was in my son's life, except for a computer, a game console and dreams of brands. Now he does not allow me to buy him business class tickets or even pay for the first row in Easy Jet. “Why unnecessary expenses?” Asks my child. And he urges me not to show off :) As in Anderson's fairy tale: the ugly duckling has turned into a beautiful swan! Once in a suitable environment for transformations.
Stas Kataev graduated from Cardiff University, part of the prestigious Russell group, where he studied computer science.
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