> > Hm. It's too bad you missed my rant about such self-glorification in Chat the other evening. When you're 80, or even when you're 22, life will have more perspective.
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> > Ell"Oh, to be naive again"myruh
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> Albeit an irony that you're self-glorifying yourself for giving such a good rant the other evening, I'd love it if you'd reissue the rant for non-chatter consumption. My assumptions about what you said are probably wrong but, launching off guess work, I'd rebut that I find self-glorification wonderful. I love people who appreciate themselves and find good in what they've done. It stems from my despising the fact that TV sets too high a standard for people to live up to -- so I think great things about people who glorify their community and I put on a pedestal those who find themselves setting their personal standards of greatness.
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My rant was actually in response to someone pitying themselves, but in doing so, actually eliciting compliments from all of us. I've seen too many people posting on this forum and talking in chat, saying such things as, "Oh, I feel sooooo bad. I only got a 1200 on the SAT, so now I'll never get into a good school or get scholarships and my life is over and I guess I should study more because I'm actually in the 96th percentile in my class and I won the citizenship award in second grade and my history teacher says I'm really smart."

As for glorifying myself by mentioning my own rant, you may think you're awfully smart for coming up with that one, but that was not the case. I did not say that it was a good rant or that it did any good. I was just thinking that it would be nice if I weren't subjected to naive teenagers prattling on about themselves when I really have no desire to hear more of it.

The truth of the matter is that, for most people out there, what you LEARN in school is much more important than your grades. The valedictorian in my high school had straight As, but knowingly had a boyfriend who cheated on her. Last I heard, they were still together, he was still cheating on her and she was supporting him. Then there's the girl who had test anxiety and scored something like an 800 on her SAT test, even though she studied more than the rest of us. After several more attempts, she barely broke 1000. But she went off to college, found something she enjoyed doing and loved her college life.

In the end, grades and awards mean very little, if anything. Yes, they spruce up your resume until you've gained enough work experience, but that's about it. Intangible awards earned through living, however, are irreplacable.

Ell"Cynical and jaded, and thinking it might be best to swear off the forum for a while"myruh