Nonito Donaire Jr., touching upon his rift with his father and the apparent retirement of his brother, has launched the blog portion of his revamped Web site in a most touching way.
His 1,400-word post is admirably self-revealing, laying bare what in the Philippines has been a juicy story since last November by explaining his emulation of his father and his regret that the family has gradually lost cohesion.
?But as everyone in the family grew up and acquired their own families, everyone started pulling away from each other because their focus was their own family,? Donaire wrote. ?Before, everyone would talk all day about having this land and everyone living in it with houses next to each other like a compound and everyone being together, and me my brother becoming the first Filipino brothers to become champions at the same time.
?Those were our goals and our dreams, but as every one grew apart, that dream dissipated, and slowly became blurry. As the years went on and the dreams and goals as the priorities shifted, the dreams and goals became something a child would talk about when he was little. Only I was the only one that really tried to keep the family together. Those dreams and goals were what I drew inspiration from and drove me to do everything to make them a reality.?
So here?s where to read it, and wife Rachel?s equally candid diary, too.
