Once upon a time, there were two primary school classmates, A and B, who loved playing video games.
A's parents were open-minded, forward-thinking and liberal, so whenever A paid more attention to playing video games than to his studies, they did not mind. As long as his school grades were good, which they were, A's parents did not mind at all. In fact, they even encouraged him indirectly by upgrading his video game-playing equipment with the latest game consoles and the like in the form of such presents on his birthday and the like, seeing he was good at it.
B's parents were the opposite: narrow-minded, backward-thinking and conservative, so whenever B paid more attention to playing video games, which he too was good at, than to his studies, they intervened, violently at times, to put a stop to it. In their opinion, only doctors, lawyers, engineers and other such professionals had a future, certainly not video gamers.
This was the pattern of their lives from childhood until adulthood, when they graduated from university with master degrees, computer science in A's case and medicine in B's case.
Although B pursued a career in medicine, a discipline he graduated with honors in, to the delight of his proud parents, A, however, chose a different path, that of a professional gamer who, as destiny would have it, made it to the top of his chosen profession as one of the world's wealthiest gamers in the region of millions by his twenty-first birthday.
B, however, was not so fortunate. His small, modest chain of self-owned clinics went bankrupt due to an unexpected loss of business whereby a surge in good health enjoyed by healthy people pursuing healthy lifestyles and pharmacies offering proxy-doctoring check-ups and medical advice were the main factors.
Moral of the story: Break the mold, dispel the myth, free the mind.
