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What The Kids Taught A Didi.

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When I was 10 years old if anyone had said to me "why are you studying?" I would have looked at them as though they were asking me why the sun rises in the east and answered plainly, "because I have to" and went back to watching Shinchan on the TV. It seems too obvious to have said that because really, in my world I was told that I had to study without giving a fair explanation as to why, until I was old enough to analyse. To someone like me who has always heard "what are you studying?", "where are you studying?" and "how are you studying?", the word 'why' was alien. Do you have a better answer? I reckon most of us will agree on one point - to earn money and do well in life. That is exactly what I came to think of when I was no more a 10 year old. But then a certain boy whom I spoke with a month ago did have a different answer and I daresay it was a better one. Me: What's your name? Boy: Tom Cruise (sorry, I forgot his...