Aiming with Priorites

Does it ever occur to you that while some people try to do their best in being hardworking and diligent in getting high grades and such, while others take it lightly and seem as if nothings troubling them, in the end all walk with the same pride of being able to graduate. You see, it doesn't matter if one gets high marks. Face it, getting perfect in your Physics exam will never make you an Albert Einstein or anyone else close to what he is. True, we all have that capacity to do more than we already are, but its never the brains that allows us to succeed; it's that courage to do. Take the honors class for example. Average IQ may be high, but less than half of the number of students with a superior IQ are in that class. The others are in other sections, they who are smart enough to know that there are more important things than grades alone.

Now friend, take this other example. There's this contest between the rabbit and the turtle. Its such a common story that you may have surely heard of it. Yet, what you may fail to recognize is the message that it tries to shout out to teachers. Ladies and gentlemen, the turtle won because it TRIED. On the other hand, the rabbit knew that he was the faster among the two, and knowing that he did not have to spit on his opponent when he was already down, he laid back and gave the turtle his 15 seconds of fame. You see friends, knowledge is not about knowing whats the answer of the square root of two divided by pi squared, but knowledge is about knowing why the answer is such.

In my sixteen years of breathing in this world, I often wonder why never had i the chance to control my heart-beating for once, and let my body control my breathing for a change. Why? Because it was meant to be. Just like majority of babies born in our beloved country are meant to be baptized Christian, so are we meant to not know all the answers to our questions. You see? That's what makes life worth living:that joy and pleasure that no matter how you look at it, there will always be room to learn.
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Victory without honor is dead. Victory is nothing
without honor.