I don’t feel sorry for my rusty baby stroller ,or my baby clothes which are borrowed from neighbors , church , other tiny “humans” ,a corner trush maybe late at knight so nobody could see my proud parents .

I don’t feel sorry for my parents absence for so many hours , during the day working hard to make it .

I have company some plastic toys , an old tv , my neighbor’s cat and some “friendly” flies , flying arround atracting from the small of the milk , and maybe my diaper’s “content” . And i NEVER CRY.

I don’t feel sorry for the noises my stomach makes sometimes , late after noon . After a while they stop by their own .

I don’t feel sorry for the sweat which soaks my baby clothes , in the long hot summers bacause our 50 square meters doesn’t have air condition . The same applies for the cold winter knights .

And i NEVER CRY . I watch my parents wringle hands from the hard daily efford and i feel very sorry .

I watch my parents fighting every day from money problems , behind closed doors and i feel very sorry . I watch my mother mixing milk with water to feed me , behind closed doors again , but i see her and i feel so sorry .

But i feel the greatest sorry of all , when i see my parent’s wringle soul , cry when late at night after an exhausting fight , they grab old time photo in their hands .

This time i see a water drop escaping their eyes , which is so bright , like a jewel . A soul jewel . Of course they wipe it very fast and they take avery big breath . This time i cry too , but i don’t make a sound .

I don’t feel sorry , because i talked and walked later than the other kids in my neighborhood . The old ladies have said , that maybe i couldn’t NEVER make it . I knew they were wrong , and i didn’t listen to anyone’s opinion .

And i make it . “Remember that day” , i said to my self . Remember the “strategy” you have .

Little steps , one after another and then bigger steps , one after another . Little words , one after another and then bigger words one after another . You’ll maybe use this technic in the future .Yes it felt awesome . Concetrate now to solve this difficult school problem .

Read the pronunciation very carefully , analyse the details , seek for the hidden “keys” , see behind the obvious , study carefully the intensions of the writer .

What messages he wants to pass to you so you can learn , what “traps” he spreads to your path , how can you avoid his “tricks” and after you “decode” his informations ,search for the solution .

The smartest , quickest , correct solution . But don’t stop only providing the solution .Think MORE . What have you learned from the proccess ?

Can you categorize this solution , to future similar problems ?Can you be more faster in the future , knowing more and being more experienced ?

Can you adapt , if the problem changes a little in its details , but not in its core ? Are you sure you’ll never forget the way you solve this quiz ? Are you sure you can perform the same in half the time and with more difficult circumastunces ?

Can you slove the problem whan you are awake 24 hours ? 30 hours ? in cold conditions ? in hot conditions ?

Can you perform the same if your neighbor’s stereo is in “sky high” and your brain consetration is tested in its limits ? Can you perform the same if you are hungry ? thirsty ?Both ?

If your nerves are tensed to the maximum ? All these mixed ?

Michael Jordan , Dimitris Diamantidis , Bill Spanoulis , Nando de Colo CAN .

Can you make the EXACT SAME race time laps , in rain ,moister , hot ,cloudy all these mixed ….day ?

With 200.000 viewers or noone as in the off season tests ?

After a “silly” crash ? after a very serious crash , which injured your body and EGO ? When you are ahead in the championship 50 grades , or having another 5 World Champions “hunting” you , in the same milisecond ” ?

Can you perform EXACTLY the same if some member of your family you memeber maybe , die the day before the race ?

Can you perform the same if your wife/girlfriend/man abandon you , hours before the last race of the year when ALL are at stake ? Can you ride with your brain crystal clear , if you see a fellow rider lose his life , a day before the race ?

Michael Schumacher , Mick Doohan , Valentino Rossi , Ayrton Senna , COULD .

Can you read your lessons , using a small candle , a petrol lamp ,sometimes the sun and the moon and sometimes a train station’s lights , reading near the train lines ?

Can you finish school , walking 12 miles every day and after that doing house work because you are the oldest of your brothers and you have to take care of them ?

Can you find time to practise basketball and go to your training , after a very long day selling music CD’s in the middle of Athens Greece , because that was the only way to feed your famliy ?

Giannis Adetokunbo COULD .

When your feet are so heavy and you cannot make it for another round , you pray for someone to come and save you from this torture you cannot afford anymore .

You have reached your limits . In Soul and Body . You cannot even find the strength to yell , to cry , to ask for help , to ask for mercy , to ask for kindness , to BEG for mercy , to BEG for a savior .

You want to go home , you want this to be finished , you don’t care anymore for victory , you are “dead” . You feel “DRAINED” , you sense a fear different than other fears .

It is the first time you feel the fear of , your own death . You’ve never felt this way and deep down you feel frozen . My GOD this is the end , you tell yourself and your soul cries so loud , but noone can hear it .

You are ALONE . It is the first time you’re feeling this kind of longliness . But something inside you , is struggling . It’s LIFE ITSELF !!!

Now YOU ARE LIVING .

For some reason you know , that if you manage to overcome this moment , if you manage to HOLD FOR ANOTHER SECOND – MINUTE – ROUND and don’t collapse , you’ll pass through the other side of a BIG DOOR .The door of pure victory in life .

And you’ll never be the same again .