Passing

“Getting away from my work pretty much equates to paralysis, I simply don’t know what to do with myself when I am away. I hope the same for others, because I’ve always said the world looks very different, when you’re pushing yourself every second you’ve got. Have I succeeded? I’ve succeeded in being…”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“The answer to why I came? To find out something I kind of already knew. To confirm it further.”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“33 years ago my parents dragged our family here from the war on their own two feet, it was a matter of survival. We came to this country with no money, and not being able to speak the language. My mother pregnant with my older brother, and then myself a year after, found a job, learned the language,…”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“They told me how despite having help in the house she would get up every day to cook and clean and work. And that it was impossible to stop her despite her organs failing one after another. Up until her body stopped working she didn’t. I started to realize I of all people understood her the most. Wo…”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“No joke, in a perverse level of dedication I planned to be working while my mother was on her deathbed. Was this my way of not dealing with it?”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“Workaholic? Please. That’s sounds like something lazy people would say.”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“If you are not a complete prisoner of yourself, you are not my kind of busy.”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“I believe that the human spirit is indomitable. If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams is something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is n…”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net