Before I do my graduation thoughts blog in November and my graduation appreciation blog in December, I am doing a couple of prose pieces about my college experience. This one I wrote a week or so ago and the other one (Capstone) which I will blog in October I wrote this summer and it is still somewhat oddly relevant. Here is the real lessons prose piece part 3 of my grad blog series. Enjoy!
The Real Lessons
By I. Jimmy Bott
The real lessons are not worth whether you learn something big enough to get an A on your exam
But what you learn along the way as far as studying bits,
What you do to get there and how you prepare with your time
The real lessons aren't whether you get depressed, anxious, or are all put-together
But rather how you deal with unusual circumstances when you need to and how you continue to perservere
The real lessons aren't whether you get likes on Instagram or Facebook
But how you deal with integrity online are careful to present yourself with employers well and are Continuing what you need to do to be more mature both with how you deal with things online but Also in person
The real lessons aren't whether there is conflict in the midst but how you deal with the inevitability That it won't be great and hunky-dory all the time and that people can be kind of mean sometimes And not have your best interest and cause conflict even when they don't intend to
The real lessons aren't whether you don't necessarily acknowledge what you need to do to become Great but how you get there in an unparalleled triumphant continuation of your own experiences
Which will continue to shine after the storms that you've been through
The real lessons aren't what you try to do but how you try to do it and not where you land but what You're doing along the way people don't want to change because of your own experiences but rather They are each uniquely caring about what they have learned from you to change what they need to do They have a need to inspire, create, show worth, find ability in others, and see the world in a great Light what you learn in school isn't the end goal of all that education moreover it's that you are a Student of life as well as academics and you are constantly learning what you need to do to be not Good enough but great being a world-changer takes time and we need to change ourselves before we Can change other's perceptions- these are the real lessons-IJB
