To each his own.

There's nothing like that last high school honor night when all the seniors take turns walking across the stage and hearing their accomplishments read to the audience. The experience is different for all of us I'm sure: some only receive a Physical Fitness Award or a Core 40 diploma while others announce their departure to Harvard or receiving over $100,000 in scholarships. At such honor nights there is always a lot of cheering, bored glancing at the walls, and checking out how others in the class dressed up for the occasion. There are also a lot of green-eyed monsters running around.

I'd like to take this time to remind everyone that the old saying stands true: to each his own. Just like when we pledged our allegiance to Christ and were given spiritual gifts based on how we would best be able to serve others, same way now, upon our exit from high school, we are given various merits which would best help us during college years. If person 1 is given $80,000 in tuition and person 2 only $10,000, person 1 will be going to a private out of state college and person 2 to a local school, the proportion of tuition money is still the same.

So I, with $1000 in my hands and $20,000 on credit, walked across the stage thinking "don't trip don't trip don't trip". That's how we go through life, most of the time. Thinking: 1) don't trip, 2) where do I fit into the bigger picture, and 3) why did someone get this and I only got that?

I'm pretty happy with the turnout of the night. My parents weren't able to attend the program, which is fine because it was super-boring. If they just wanted to see me walk across a stage and have my name read then they'll definitely have more chances for that in the future (ie.potential book promos, etc.) Currently, though, I am hiding the night's program from mom because she has a habit of going on about how someone else got this-and-this and I didn't. I might show it to her some years down the road if she's still interested.

In any case, watch this video below. It'll put things in perspective.



--side hugs, E.A.