Jorge Goldstein

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Córdoba, Argentina, 1964 I am at the opponents’ end of the pitch when I see the soccer ball fly down toward me. It’s a high pass from Katz, back there on defense. I assure myself that I’m not offside and, after stopping the ball with my chest, start running toward the goal line. As my marker gets to me, I stop, do a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn, shifting the ball from my left foot to my right one. I’ve seen Pelé do this a thousand times; but it’s a first one for me. I

I lead what Socrates in his trial called “an examined life.” Actually, what he said was that “a life unexamined is not worth living.” He meant that one should question and analyze one’s life all the time. Since the Athenian court forbade him to continue his dialogues questioning everyone’s lives, Socrates chose death over exile. Death over a life unexamined. I am not sure I want to go that far. Yet his maxim is with me every day. I examine my life all the time: Who I am, wh

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I recently got an invitation from StoryWorth asking me to write a piece about giving advice to my 20-year-old self. Entirely by coincidence, a few days after receiving the invitation, I happened to re-read a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine writer of fantastical and surrealist fiction, entitled El Otro, The Other. Borges wrote El Otro in 1972. The story did not exist before I immigrated in 1968, so I couldn’t have read it, as I had read so many other storie

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