“The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and goes. But what you learn once stays with you forever.”
~Warren Buffett
Many people don’t realize it, but learning is the most important skill you can ever learn.
I’ve been called ‘stupid’ for about a decade — for making trivial mistakes, for being a disappointment, for asking for help — by someone who once cared about me.
And the unimaginable part is, I tried to take it all in. I convinced myself that being told so was a good thing because if anything, it’d be a lesson to not make the same mistake again.
“So what motivates you to put in your greatest effort?”
If I ask this question to people, their response usually revolves around money or passion or people they admire.
For me, it’s this:
“Don’t ever change.”
Those were the words written from one seventh-grader to another.
As I looked at what my friend had written for me in my yearbook, my heart was filled with a strange sense of warmth.
The words, “Don’t ever change,” was short and sweet, but confusing all at the same time.
I honestly had no idea what she was talking about, but I nodded my head anyways and smiled.
My friend had just confided in me about something that’s been bothering her, something that made her question about life.