I have been a misfit since childhood. I knew that no one understood me, not even my father. He once said, “You are not a madman fit to be put in a madhouse, nor are you a monk to be put in a monastery. I just don’t know what you are!”
I replied: “You know, father, I can tell you what it is like.”
Once, a duck egg was put under a hen to get hatched. When the egg hatched, the duckling walked along with the mother hen until they came to a pond. The duckling took a nice dip in the water. But the hen stayed on the bank and clicked.” “Now, my dear father, after having tried the sea, I find it my home. If you choose to stay on the shore, is it my fault?
I am not to be blamed.”
