My Mentor

[don_budge]

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Deep in thought Kyle. Today is my father's 91st Birthday. Your story was touching as well as enlightening. Thank you.

[gzhpcu]

Heart warming, thanks for sharing Kyle.

My Dad was my mentor too. He showed me by example, never to complain, always be positive. He was always kind and generous. My mother, too, never complained once and was always kind, warm and cheerful.

When we came back to Switzerland in the late sixties, Dad was double crossed by his partner, and we lost almost everything. Dad quickly found an American cosmetics company that needed a representative in Switzerland, and began recovering. My Dad, instead of telling me that because of the hard times, I would have to apply for a job, insisted I go study at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich to become an electrical engineer.

Unknown to me, he was very ill, and Mom and Dad did not tell me, (though I saw he lost weight and had rings below his eyes.) so as not to distract me in my final year as I was preparing for exams to get my diploma. It was tough because it was in German, which I barely knew, but I managed. My terror was to let my parents down.


Then shortly before taking my exams, father had to go urgently to the hospital. Even then he told me do not worry "Soon as I am out we will go to Sicily on vacation.."--- His last words...

Everything I became I owe to my parents.

[stotty]

Nice article, Klacr. Now I know where your intense love of food comes from!

Oddly enough I am half way through a course on mentoring with the LTA. I have a project where I have to find a person to mentor and help guide them where they are going. It's a bit of a skill when you read up about it. It's really about allowing a person to find things out for themselves rather than directly trying to influence them as such.

I never had a mentor. I am an extremely singular person, but I have reasonably good judgement and have learnt from others I've bumped into along the way.

It was a warming article to read. You're a warm person who never abuses another or runs anyone down. We've never met but I've got you down as a really nice bloke.

[johnyandell]

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