Eric Hsieh:  

and I began to have severe OCD and depression stemming from severe anxiety and worry for the next six years. It took me almost six years to graduate from UCSD. While I was in high school, I had a 2.5 GPA in ninth grade. That year my dad came to see me at the pool hall and arcade, and he told me in the most loving of tones, "Dad has cancer and am working 14 hours a day and taking care of you at the same time. I always give everything and all my love to you. What I want to ask you, bu shi ni dui de qi wo, shi ni dui de qi zi ji ma? Sorry, I don't know how to write Chinese. Long story short, I went home and cried my eyes out, and God helped me to a 3.91 GPA my sophomore and junior years not counting AP courses. God also inspired my dad to enroll me in an SAT class a month before the test. I got a 1410 and never took it again. I began trading while I was 17 years old. By the time I was 21 I was trading full-time and went to college just to read history books. I entered as a biochem major and it took me a year to find out that the brain God gave was not compatible with that. I switched to Economics and took a year of that. It turned me to full time trading and investing. I switched to History after my dad passed away in 2001 so that I could get the college degree that my dad made me promise to get. By the end of 2003 I had managed to turn my mom's $500k inheritance into $1.2 million. By early 2005 it was almost $2 mil. I bought the oceanfront pad I wanted in Pacific Palisades, and was dating a schoolmate of Zhang Ziyi at the Beijing School of Arts. She was a ballerina and that's what I wanted. I wanted these things in my futile attempt to fill the pain and emptiness in my entire being from both of my parents' early deaths. Hindsight is always 20/20 of course. By the middle of 2005 I wanted to jump into the Pacific Ocean that was right in front of my front door. By the end of 2005 I finally turned to God. I let God know that He could have His way with my life, no conditions. In 2006 I met my wife two days after the pastor's wife had the entire church pray that I would have a angel accompany me back to the US for law school. I thought they meant one of those tiny angels that they show on TV hovering on your shoulder. Well, it turned out to be a beautiful and most pure girl, inside and out, my wife, my Angel. By 2007 I had lost what I made, and by November of 2008 I had lost my mother's inheritance as well. God gave me peace and comfort through it all. He never let me lose faith in Him. The final part of this story has yet to be completed. We existed so that we can be living testimonies to the perfect love of God. With a generous $65,000 loan from my family in August of last year, and all with the help of our Lord, I am back at $550k after quitting my job in NY in June after God told me through a dream and then a series of at least 20 confirmations to move back to San Diego to face my painful past. The rest is history. My wife became pregnant and she is due to give birth in August. I can tell you in words how much I am looking forward to giving my child a complete family. I will see my parents in my child. May everyone that reads this turn to God and be blessed. And I tell you from the bottom of my heart, losing my money was hands down a bigger blessing than making it back. I learned during the three years losing the money, I learned so much about myself, God did it to tear down my walls and heal my hurts. God will never tear something down if He is not going to make it better. In Jesus' Name is this testimony to God's Grace, Mercy, and Providence, Amen. Thank You LORD God for giving me the courage and circumstances to finally move back to So Cal, the place where I grew up. Married (and almost) with children. Thank You Jesus for everything good in my life, the sad good, and the happy good, the painful good, and the comfortable good-".