Life is a vapor. Leave a mark.
Teaching is a thankless job. Not every student ends a K12 career realizing the struggle of learning was the prize that led to excellence in living, but this student in this blackout poem got it. And he went on.
It’s not the grade that brought the excellence; it was the struggle to learn in all the successes and failures. The struggle is okay to experience. It is the prize in school. It is the key to going on with fortitude.
What is best to be done when we are tired of trying without success, tired of fighting with nothing to show for it, tired of working without any progress? What is best to be done when we struggle to see purpose in the trials?
Our next choice should always be to do the next right thing: try again, keep fighting, work to work it out. Sometimes our greatest success is found not in an achievement but in the determination to never quit.
Quitting is losing every time. Resolve to never quit, for perseverance is success. Often the process is more valuable than the achievement it may produce.
Vapormarks