#8 Frank Fallon
To be Frank Chapter 1 (introduction about me) My name is Frank. My assumption is that you will not know who I am. Actually if you have bought this book or rented it from a library then you no doubt do know me. In the world as it is, full of silly paid footballers, Big Brother and YouTube stars, I am nobody. At least I am nobody special. Harry Potter has been known as the boy who lived. I'm currently living. My frank explanation of my 31 years thus far is to tick another box off the bucket list but also share with you opportunities that are worth sharing. Where I have been you may like to go. Where I haven't been you may like to go. How I got to where I've been may be how you can get to where I haven't been. What is good about this world full of bloggers and vloggers is that there is a platform for everything. So my being someone not so special has no impact on whether you wish to read my book, it's that me being nobody still entitles me to sharing just that. It all started in a town called Stevenage. If I wasn't trying to be Frank I could go further back and address the family tree but perhaps I will branch into that several chapters in. Stevenage was one of the first towns built after the war to house the overspill of London. It's nothing special considering how large the world is, but it has had its fair share of special events and produced some popular faces over the years. (Special events). (Older people born in Stevenage) and then the millennials including Ed Westwick, Lewis Hamilton, Ashley Young and Jack Wilshere to name a few. If you hadn't heard of any of them then this book isn't as unnecessary as first imagined. I'm on par with celebrities. I was born a massive baby in to a family life. Loving people all around me and opportunities presenting themselves to anyone who was curious. In short in the beginning everything was set as the sociology books may have written; nuclear family with support family around them. All those mentioned in full time employment. I find it interesting that society still now pictures things a certain way. I am confident that some areas in this book I can share experiences from my own or others I have worked with that says there is always another way. People fail at one thing and succeed at another. Limiting success to the achievement doesn't always suggest the level of effort gone in, those that have failed more, those that have had to make huge sacrifices and those that were written off from the beginning. As much as in a sky fall of 7 billion shining stars, my own light can't be seen all the time, it has shone for many people and over these next chapters I hope it will shine for you.