my history buff boomer dad: "When Alexander the Great (or Alexander the Macedonian as we call him in Russian) was 19 he conquered Persia. What have you done?"
I once went to an exhibit about Leonardo da Vinci, the man who invented half the known world by the age of 30. In front of a statue of him, I broke down in tears. "I am already twenty years old," I cried, "and I have invented nothing!"
my history buff boomer dad: "When Alexander the Great (or Alexander the Macedonian as we call him in Russian) was 19 he conquered Persia. What have you done?"
I once went to an exhibit about Leonardo da Vinci, the man who invented half the known world by the age of 30. In front of a statue of him, I broke down in tears. "I am already twenty years old," I cried, "and I have invented nothing!"