COMMENT | Sometimes, as human beings, we always try to portray ourselves as being successful, happy and achieving everything we want.

Now with social media, it becomes even more so when all we ever highlight are the good things and never the bad. I don’t think it’s a social media thing. Who would want to highlight the bad stuff in their lives for the public?

My wife, Sheril, brought up something interesting to me the other day. She said my eldest daughter, Athena, looks up to me and tries hard to be like me. However, the way she sees it is that Athena observes my life as if everything that I have achieved (it’s nothing that grand, really) just fell into my lap without much work at all.

Apparently, the way I portray myself is that...