roger out

i think i'm breaking free of this daily torture.

just finished this book titled, "How Starbucks saved my life".

contrary to the usual rags-to-riches stories that we so often read about, it's about a man who had a great career, lost it all and then found his meaning of life after he joined Starbucks as a barista.

this man held a high post in an advertising firm since he graduated from university and worked there until he was sixty-four when he was sacked by a lady who was once his trainee in the firm.
he had a complete family with four kids before he got into an affair from which, he had another child and soon he got divorced with his first wife. his second wife who is near twenty years younger than him soon found him boring and they did not have a good relationship thereafter.

as a creative director in the advertising firm, he was racist, elitist and snobbish. in the story, he will recollect about how people discriminated against him like the way he did to others when he had power in the past and the various ironies in life, like how he was given an opportunity to work in Starbucks by a black lady manager, someone he would not even talk to in the past. the way his colleagues helped him along with work also made him ashamed on how he treated his subordinates in the past. his experiences with his new-born boy also made him regret the little time he spent with his four older children from his previous marriage, and he will explain how Starbucks helped him re-create a bond between him and his children.

thankfully for this book, i'll work even harder towards the meaningful life i believe in. hopefully at sixty years old, i would not think that the past fifty plus years of my life were nothing but a lie.
i think that feeling will be quite hong-gan.