Graduation Day?

Graduation. Is it all its cracked up to be? Graduation is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success. How ironic.

In real life, isn't graduation an everyday experience. Graduating from the process every day is what life is all about. In today's world with the economy the way it is, which one of our classmates should receive a bad grade. Are we to expect the CEO's of the big important companies to be our mentors and follow their lead, or are we suppose to use the ole saying, let the blind lead the blind? It seems that they have received the "F" grade in the class today. Does it seem crazy that as a leader of your business you would go in front of congress and say to the whole world, "Hey, I don't know how to run my company properly, can you give my company some money to hold us over?" I think that is called "stupidity." Henry Ford stated that "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." Now what do you think he would say about the CEO that is running his company now.

I like the saying, "life is a bowl of cherries." The other part of that is "so why am I in the pits." I would say that you shouldn't want to avoid the pits. Pits are actually seeds. So going through the life process, "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson. Seize the opportunities that surround you and do all this by six to be home for dinner.

I liken the path of life to walking in the snow. I found a nice little poem that echoes the thought, "The future lies before you like a field of driven snow, Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. - Author Unknown

As I have been in the game called "life" now for many years and have been through many different experiences, I surely wouldn't call myself a barnstormer, but I have been in front many times leading the people that were in trusted in my care.

I have led soldiers into many different experiences to include minor skirmishes in Somalia (another story). I have led civilians to be the best that they could possibly be. I am not done by any means. I would say that the great Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it best when he says, "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is not path and leave a trail." This is my intention. I may need to leave bread crumbs though as the road that I choose isn't always my inital destination.

Where is that? Your destination? That will be my next blog addition.