Hey Ilya..
well, we don't really know each other besides random stories that we hear about each other from the women in the Zak family..
My name is Matan and I was asked by your excellent father if I can write something to you on your 20th birthday on this blog and couldn't reject the offer both because I'm always happy to say my opinion on just about everything (even if I don't know you) and because if I wouldn't then
your big sister would make my life a living hell.. no, it's not true, she will never do it.. well, that's not true also, she will do it but it has nothing to do with whether I'll write or not so.. well, enough about me..
I'll be honest with you, I actually have a dilemma if to take it to a funny place or a serious one so I'll just start and see how it goes.. I'll start by saying that I don't really have lots of things to tell
you, not because I don't know you but because I think we both have a very different understanding of the age 20 since we're coming from totally different worlds and when I was twenty, I wasn't really getting ready for travelling to Japan to work there and "start life"
etc.. so I can't really tell what it feels like, but it's kind of an advantage I think because you'll have enough people that are coming from this world and will be able to write that you're about to have the greatest time and bla bla bla.. you don't need another random guy to tell you these things again. so I'll just tell you 2 things:
1) take nothing for granted, appreciate everything that is happening to you, starting with the fact that option of doing what you are doing in such an early age is not an obvious thing, I think it's amazing and great and in some place in my heart, I even allow myself to say that I am jealous of you, I think that in the point you are standing today it's really hard to see how unusual and special is the way you live your life, even if you think it's normal, trust me, it's not, and you have a great luck to have these options for you so appreciate this and everything along that way.remember that everything can change in less than a second, even if it doesn't seem that way right now..
2) learn the word "responsibility" and "learning" - I am not talking about business/books/career making and stuff like that, i couldn't care less about it, I am talking about life, understand you are responsible for everything in your life and always point the blaming finger towards yourself, and learn that there is still so much you don't know, don't be too proud in order to say "I don't know" and don't be too arrogant to say "I was wrong" if i would know that earlier in my life I would have saved myself a great deal of really painful lessons, you'll have low points and failures in your life even if you can't believe it now and even if you are an extremely talented and bright guy, learning from them and taking responsibility for them will be the best thing you can do.
o.k, enough with the lecture, you're 20 years old and you have other things to worry about. go, enjoy, appreciate and more than all take good care of yourself or your mother will drive us all crazy.
tons of Mazal tov and enjoy everything you desire to.
Matan.
well, we don't really know each other besides random stories that we hear about each other from the women in the Zak family..
My name is Matan and I was asked by your excellent father if I can write something to you on your 20th birthday on this blog and couldn't reject the offer both because I'm always happy to say my opinion on just about everything (even if I don't know you) and because if I wouldn't then
your big sister would make my life a living hell.. no, it's not true, she will never do it.. well, that's not true also, she will do it but it has nothing to do with whether I'll write or not so.. well, enough about me..
I'll be honest with you, I actually have a dilemma if to take it to a funny place or a serious one so I'll just start and see how it goes.. I'll start by saying that I don't really have lots of things to tell
you, not because I don't know you but because I think we both have a very different understanding of the age 20 since we're coming from totally different worlds and when I was twenty, I wasn't really getting ready for travelling to Japan to work there and "start life"
etc.. so I can't really tell what it feels like, but it's kind of an advantage I think because you'll have enough people that are coming from this world and will be able to write that you're about to have the greatest time and bla bla bla.. you don't need another random guy to tell you these things again. so I'll just tell you 2 things:
1) take nothing for granted, appreciate everything that is happening to you, starting with the fact that option of doing what you are doing in such an early age is not an obvious thing, I think it's amazing and great and in some place in my heart, I even allow myself to say that I am jealous of you, I think that in the point you are standing today it's really hard to see how unusual and special is the way you live your life, even if you think it's normal, trust me, it's not, and you have a great luck to have these options for you so appreciate this and everything along that way.remember that everything can change in less than a second, even if it doesn't seem that way right now..
2) learn the word "responsibility" and "learning" - I am not talking about business/books/career making and stuff like that, i couldn't care less about it, I am talking about life, understand you are responsible for everything in your life and always point the blaming finger towards yourself, and learn that there is still so much you don't know, don't be too proud in order to say "I don't know" and don't be too arrogant to say "I was wrong" if i would know that earlier in my life I would have saved myself a great deal of really painful lessons, you'll have low points and failures in your life even if you can't believe it now and even if you are an extremely talented and bright guy, learning from them and taking responsibility for them will be the best thing you can do.
o.k, enough with the lecture, you're 20 years old and you have other things to worry about. go, enjoy, appreciate and more than all take good care of yourself or your mother will drive us all crazy.
tons of Mazal tov and enjoy everything you desire to.
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