"...Always carry something with characters written on it with you and look at it when no one's looking."
Funny story, Hidden Treasure has always told me that he never goes anywhere without a book on him and said many times to me that it is a good idea to do the same. So one morning as I was getting ready to go stand in the UNISA line to register, expecting like an hour wait, so I popped a book that I had been wanting to read forever in my bag and off I went.
Well tell you what, I have never been happier about taking someones advice as I was that day. The hour wait that I was expecting turned into a seven hour wait. For some unknown reason, on this day I forgot to take a bottle of water with me, and because I was late (funny that) I had to skip breakfast. You know how sometimes you go to a restaurant and you throw a couple sweets in your bag "just in case", well keep doing that. I have never been happier to find Spur sweets at the bottom of my bag in my life, although they took a while to eat cause I was suffering from dehydration. And when my very sweet neighbour's friend arrived with a full meal from Nando's for her, the book was the only thing keeping my mind from going mad. I just turned slightly to right and kept reading, blinking the tears of hunger and thirst away.
It so happened that the book I took that day inspired me to learn Spanish and quit my mundane job for an experience of a life time as a photographer on a cruise ship. Yes, that little book did all that. True story. So put that book in your bag, you never know when you'll need it and what it might inspire you to do.
Funny story, Hidden Treasure has always told me that he never goes anywhere without a book on him and said many times to me that it is a good idea to do the same. So one morning as I was getting ready to go stand in the UNISA line to register, expecting like an hour wait, so I popped a book that I had been wanting to read forever in my bag and off I went.
Well tell you what, I have never been happier about taking someones advice as I was that day. The hour wait that I was expecting turned into a seven hour wait. For some unknown reason, on this day I forgot to take a bottle of water with me, and because I was late (funny that) I had to skip breakfast. You know how sometimes you go to a restaurant and you throw a couple sweets in your bag "just in case", well keep doing that. I have never been happier to find Spur sweets at the bottom of my bag in my life, although they took a while to eat cause I was suffering from dehydration. And when my very sweet neighbour's friend arrived with a full meal from Nando's for her, the book was the only thing keeping my mind from going mad. I just turned slightly to right and kept reading, blinking the tears of hunger and thirst away.
It so happened that the book I took that day inspired me to learn Spanish and quit my mundane job for an experience of a life time as a photographer on a cruise ship. Yes, that little book did all that. True story. So put that book in your bag, you never know when you'll need it and what it might inspire you to do.
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