Food for Thought

     Today in class we watched a video about eight students in the national spelling bee. One of them was of Indian decent. He studied approximately 8,000 words per day. I thought he was crazy, but now I realize that he was just committed. One of the comments his dad made struck me as surprisingly accurate. He said that in America, if you work hard, then you can become something great, where that isn't true in any other part of the world. My theory is that this country was made of people who came from nothing, but wanted to rise to the top and that hasn't changed in 250 years. In other countries, there is a specific social structure and where you are born is where you stay, but in America, you can rise to the top or sink to the bottom. What puzzles me is that you make the biggest decisions that will most likely decide the rest of your life when you care the least. At age 18, you probably made some the worst decisions of your life and the best ones too, it's kind of a trade off. But it isn't impossible to get your life back on track if you make bad decisions at age 18--it just makes it harder. That's just some food for thought