Well, may be it was an email. A Swedish girl who lives in Shanghai is working on her application to college. She needs support and feedback. I suspect she can't get it from her own family and I guess she doesn't know other adults who she trusts.
Through one of my mentees, the email is addressed to me. I read her two page personal story, which exposes a very different upbringing. Absent parents, lack of human friends (but plenty of animal friends) formed this girl for life, so it seems.
What she is doing in Shanghai, I don't know. Where she wants to go to college, I don't know either. What I do know is that she is desperate to have someone to talk to, who can give her some guidelines. How do you do that when you have no knowledge of who she really is, her values, her personality? I'm preparing one of my more difficult coaching sessions. A gentle approach filled with questions to try to give this girl something that will hopefully help her to take the next step in her life.
Humbleness and modesty.
Through one of my mentees, the email is addressed to me. I read her two page personal story, which exposes a very different upbringing. Absent parents, lack of human friends (but plenty of animal friends) formed this girl for life, so it seems.
What she is doing in Shanghai, I don't know. Where she wants to go to college, I don't know either. What I do know is that she is desperate to have someone to talk to, who can give her some guidelines. How do you do that when you have no knowledge of who she really is, her values, her personality? I'm preparing one of my more difficult coaching sessions. A gentle approach filled with questions to try to give this girl something that will hopefully help her to take the next step in her life.
Humbleness and modesty.
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