After my gramps died, my grandma told me that in all the family I was the one most similar to him, the one who worked harder…I don’t think she said smarter but she said smart as him; and well thats a lot.
After LACS died, in his religious goodbye, my “mother from CUCEI” told me that I was the one most similar to him, smart and saw CS in a similar way…but I didn’t have the same areas of opportunity that he did have.
Those 2 are probably the best compliments I will ever receive…until somebody compare with my mom.
Last time I spoke with my grampa, my mother called me when I was driving from home to the university, I was trapped in a traffic jam in a roundabout, my mother told me that my grampa loved me very much and that he blessed me; at that time my grampa couldn’t speak because he had a lot of things on him.
The last time I really spoke with him was some weeks before that, he was lucid, smart and wise as ever at his 80+ years old.
I don’t remember why but he ended up teaching me about Cartago, the rise and fall and why sometimes people says that they are going to “Cartago” something.
At the time I had 2 bachelors degree, 1 MBA, several certifications, teacher at couple of masters and he was still teaching me something related to something I just said.
Congrats papa, we may not be on the same plane/dimension anymore but I still remember you and love you.
One of my favorite comic-book characters is batman, he is the epitome of the human race, he is the smartest and overall strongest human in earth(Maybe Ubu or Bane might stronger under some circunstances with venom or something else).
So in real life, probably the most similar could be Mariusz Pudzianowski, successful entrepreneur and several times world strongest man, his main strength are his muscle, his brains is quite impressive too but all to consider, I don’t believe he is the best combination I could imagine.
My gramps was the person who embodies Batman to me, he was a walking enciclopedia, the must successful entrepreneur I knew and for his advance age when I met him on 94(I met him before but I don’t really recall anything before that year =) ) he was on pretty good shape.
My gramps was a wealthy man, when I moved to Venezuela he retired from his main jobs, to live of his rents, he was confident he will be able to live of that and have a hobby on the big farm he had.
Well, after a few years with the inflation that Venezuela had, it was impossible for everybody to live off his rents, so he decided to start working again.
When I asked why did he come out of retirement, he explained me that but he also said to me: “Watch me grow rich…again”