I didnt get any award at graduation. You want to know why- I’ll tell you, because by night seder I ran to check scores by recess I played ball. The guy who won he learned while he ate lunch and he did his english homework and listened in class.
Would my parents have been proud if I’d have gotten it, yes, but I didn’t deserve it.
That doesnt mean I havent “made it”.
Bill Gates said “Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.”