Lessons from a High School Graduate
Don't Call Me Tigger by C.M. Cooper In just nine hours, I am going to receive my high school diploma and turn my tassel. I will have received some credentials, some merit in exchange for the thirteen years of my life spent learning. I will also have accomplished the major goal of childhood, and begin to embark on the first meager adult goals of my life. Graduating from high school is the hopeful first in a long list of major life milestones and accomplishments. As much as it is a beginning, however, it is also an ending. My years of elementary, middle, and high school have all led up to my graduation, and in those thirteen years, I have learned more than just the Pythagorean Theorem. These are all lessons and values I have written about before, but they hold their value nonetheless. 1. Kindness The biggest, most important, special thing I have learned in my life is kindness . There is such a tendency in a self-gratifying, impatient world to be selfish , when it is far more ...
