While I was doing a project of fixing Isaac’s shelves today I ran across my old yearbooks from high school. I took a few minutes to read through the notes from my senior yearbook and as I flipped through the pages I saw so much evidence of how much of my potential was wasted in high school. I saw a picture of the academic letter club. Carl was in it but i was not because I never cared about grades despite being among the smartest kids in school. I got the highest test scores and took (and easily passed) the hardest classes, but I was not disciplined enough to get grades consistently high enough to join the academic letter club—although I knew a lot of the people in that picture. I went through the pages of the sterling scholars and realized that there were at least two of those where I should have been competitive if I had any personal drive or any understanding of the system. I saw the lists of accomplishments of others I knew and realized that I had enormous potential but no self-discipline and nobody to encourage me to really pursue any extra-curricular activities.
It left me wondering how much potential I have which is still being left untapped.
This may simply be a case of being a late-bloomer but if so I think it’s about time to start opening the blossom and really beginning to live up to my possibilities.
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