For a past few weeks I was trying to motivate my younger siblings a bit.

It is pathetic to see how uninterested they are in their own future, how little self-esteem they have. They don't know yet that they don't have to compete with their peers, or be more intelligent than any of them. All that matters that they constantly work on their own interests and cultivate them early. If they find this out in college, it may be too late.

Both of them have a lot of potential, both are intelligent enough. My brother has a strong advantage of having a wonderful character and good work ethic.

Neither had any direction in their lives.

It brings back my previous note from February 06, 2002 (last paragraph).