It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.
The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.
In 2003, he was hit by a subway in Prague and lost both of his legs. It made me realize that we take for granted every step we take, and my brother now has to physically challenge himself to take each step in his prosthetic.
He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'
I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.
I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.