Well, not Central Park. This is the view from our apartment.
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Well, not Central Park. This is the view from our apartment.
I imagine that, when you were little girl, you were watching through this window and dreaming that one day you will become the champion of the world. Something like Nikola Tesla when he was as a kid dreaming about Niagara Falls. Everything great in this world seems to have existed first inside the land of dreams. Thank you for sharing all the photos with us.
Does the Polgar family still own the apartment these pictures were taken in?! Or are you a very special guest in someone else’s home?
Thank you for the pictures.
Thanx for sharing your childhood! It is amazing that from such humble beginnings such greatness in our chess world was achieved.
MayanKing said…
Thanx for sharing your childhood! It is amazing that from such humble beginnings such greatness in our chess world was achieved.
Which proves that it doesn’t take wealth for someone to become successful. It takes some intelligence, some willpower, some talent, and the willingness to work toward a goal.
Too many people these days use the excuse that “we were poor”. So what? Susan’s family was poor. I am no world champion in anything, only an ordinary doctor, but I grew up under very similar circumstances as Susan (same country, same city). In those days typicall more than two generations lived under the same roof. We were all poor, compared to american standards. In fact, probably more poor than those labeled “poverty stricken” in today’s USA. Yet, that was never an excuse to anyone. It was almost natural to us. We still went to school regularly, we still studied, learned, was seeking extra knowledge if interest was present and so on.
Parents never, ever told their children that “don’t bother to work hard you have no chance to achieve”. Absolutely never. Just the exact opposite, parents encouraged their children to study, learn, work hard, so “at least you will have a chance to do better that we did”.
And that was and still is the right approach.
Gabor
Thanks for sharing the pictures and stories of your childhood days. No one is going to make a movie about me, but I too live far away from where I grew up and have very fond memories of “home”.
thx for the pics Susan 🙂