Me & GGM

I haven't blogged in a while, but i'm really inspired now after reading some parts and great quotes from the book which my sister is still reading (she startred loving him before me and recommended it to me) and I'm waiting my turn to read the whole. The book is Living to Tell The Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez , his autobiography obviously, which I'm sure many have already read. I remember watching Oprah some time ago, show dedicated to him, his books , his life and just the way he was. It was really interesting and I really liked him, his character and his way of thinking and writing.
And some of his thoughts and events from his life are kind of very similiar to mine, not to sound pretentious, of course. Like the parts that i will quote, where he's explaing his feelings why he dropped out of college , in his last years of college , something I was struggling for the past year especially, and finally very hard came to same decision as he did, and I haven't regreted it since. Here are the quotes on it. It's like he took my same thoughts and put them in these sentences. To me, amazing. And I kinda find it funny that someone some 60 years ago had the same issues, and I'm totally relating now.
' I found classes tedious, except for literarture – which I memorized – and in them I played a unique role. Bored with studying, I left everything to the mercy of chance. I had a natural instinct for predicting the important points in each subject, almoust guessing the one that most interested the teachers in order not to study the rest. The reality is that I did not understand why I had to sacrifice my talents and my time on courses that did not move me and therefore would be of no use to me in a life that was not mine.
'When I finished the fifth year, however, with academic shocks I did not feel capable of overcoming, I become aware of my limitations, and i wasn't even against them. Until then the baccalaureate had been a road paved with miracles, but my heart warned me that at the end oft he 5th year a giant wall was waiting for me. The unadorned truth is that I lacked the will, the vocation, the orderliness and the orthography to embark on an academic career. In other words: the years were flying by and I did not have the slightest idea what I was going to do with my life, for much more time would still have to go by before I realized .'
'From a very early age I've had to interrupt my education, going to school. I was not capable of discussing this with anyone because I felt, though I could not explain why, that my reasons might be valid only to me. Trying to convince my parents oft his kind of lunacy, when they had placed so much hope in me and spent so much money they did not have to waste, was a waste of my time. My father in particular would have forgiven me anything except my , not hanging on the wall, academic degree.' – this is he quoting and relating to George B Shaw
Thoughts?
XOxo, Simona