Math prodigy now a £130 hooker claim
PETALING JAYA: Sufiah Yusof, the child Maths genius who won a place at Oxford University when she was just 13, has been found to be working as a prostitute, according to a report in London’s News of the World.... ...Sufiah passed the Maths A-Level she needed for entry into Oxford at the age of 12... ...Three years into Oxford, she sparked a massive police hunt after running away... ...The report quoted her friend as saying: “Sufiah has suffered so many knocks in her life. I just hope she can drag herself out of this life she has got herself into.
“She deserves a much better life than this. Her gift has been a curse.”
I've seen a few cases of prodigies ended up in sad cases (dun ask me to name them, i dun have a computer's memory), and this is just one of it. I'm saddened.
How many years in our lifetime do we have, to be a child? They maybe smart, exceptionally talented, genius, yes... but aren't they still a child? Why rob away their childhood? Childhood is one of the sweetest phase we ever have in our lifetime. Don't we agree?
While we may be trying our best to bring the best out of the child, for all we know, we may be bringing the worst out of the child in her later years.
Just let a child be a child. Think about it.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/31/nation/20798773&sec=nation
2 comments:
Yes, childhood is sweet, and one of the best years that we can have.
But, life still has to go on.
Life goes on. But deep in us, there's a longing to go back to our childhood once again. :)
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