In case you were feeling good about your accomplishments, here’s a story of a ten-year old actor who is now directing his first movie.

I’ll give you an unusually long quote, because this was the part that struck me:

The film is about the street children who have no other address than the footpaths in India’s big cities.

“When I was six years old, I saw slum children selling newspapers at a traffic signal and I asked my dad why they are not like us. Why they do not go to schools.

“My dad said they do not have parents. I felt very bad and thought I must do something for them,” Kishan told the BBC.

“Then I wrote a short story and read it to my dad who narrated it to his friends as well. It was my dad’s friends who suggested that I should direct the film myself, as I had written the story.”

Wow. The best part is that he actually sounds like a good kid.