Acknowledgement
of an achievement; is this what life is all about?
Don’t know if
it is the time of year or just a group of award shows on television but we sure
like to pat our selves on the back.
Were we that
good?
There are
awards for best music, movies, television, sports, sales, driving, horses,
sheep, looking, fashion…. The list goes on and on.
So after we
have accomplished something special like a perfect attendance in school or prom
king or most likely to get knocked up before graduation, we get a piece of
paper or a badge or button or ribbon or a really nice hunk of wood with your
name engraved on a piece of metal or a silver cup or chalice or a painting on
the wall.
Then what?
Employers
immediately forget last year and turn to the ‘what have you done for me
lately?’ Even the movie stars fade away.
The highest
most prodigious awards like the Olympics gold metal winners or record breakers
will someday be passed by and forgotten.
Like many
other high points in our lives, we forget the words to our favorite song or the
names of our lost loves or why we hang onto all of this trash. That was then
and this is now.
Having
memorabilia around to remind us of when we were great is as phony to our hopes
that old school mates will come by and put flowers on our graves for that long
pass during homecoming game.
Still your
name might wind up in the Wikipedia database so people can see how important
you were with a footnote.
Winning could
just be a simple act of kindness.
It may not get
you to the finish line first or get you an award but will be remembered.
You choose.
1 comment:
Exactly.
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