Brand Smit

As Long As You Remain Standing (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

WHAT IS THIS COLLECTION OF NOTES ABOUT?

On Monday, 19 December 2005 I wrote, if you don't get up and continue walking after stumbling, "you will end up flat on your face. People friends, family, and some strangers will help you up to a point. But after a while they, too, will continue their own journeys. That is simply how it is."

On Thursday, 2 June 2011, I wrote about my own partner: "If you're not happy, she will help you overcome whatever obstacle is in your way. She will help you solve your problem. She will insist on it even, if necessary, at the expense of her own happiness. But if you don't co-operate, if you fail to do your part to make yourself happy, then you can go to hell as far as she is concerned."

There are quite a few friends, family members, and even some strangers I can thank for assistance over the years, but one fact remains: If you want to make it through another day, it's your responsibility to do what you have to do to stay on your feet, and when you stumble, getting back on your feet and continuing the journey must be your firm resolve.

The notes and essays in this collection were written between 1994 and 2017. It demonstrates my own modest efforts over the years to stay on my feet and to see the journey to its end.

WHO IS THE WRITER?

Born on 29 June 1971 in Pretoria, in the Republic of South Africa.

Went to South Korea in June 1996 to work as an English teacher.

Worked in Johannesburg for six months in 1998.

Departed for Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan, in January 1999.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brand Smit
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463092507
• Artikelnr.: 52889255

Autorenporträt

Brand Smit is a freelance writer, part-time teacher and since 2006, master of a wide variety of websites.

Born in Pretoria in 1971, Brand traversed South Africa with his family for the next 15 years. He graduated from high school in 1989, as fate would have it, back in Pretoria.

He then continued his training for life as a productive adult at the University of Pretoria, before heading south a year later.

After five years of learning and thinking he followed the only path that seemed reasonable after thinking about it.

Two years in South Korea had him yearning for the country of his birth. He returned, worked in Johannesburg for six months, then left again this time for the shores of the beautiful island of Taiwan. He has called the southern port city of Kaohsiung home ever since.