I never wanted to go to school, i never thought I was smart enough. My father had different plans for me personally. He said I was going. I wanted to consider over the family business which has been a bar. I mean in fact in my senior year in school I was taking classes like Chinese Literature and wood shop. I don’t think I took one college level class in school so how would any college accept me. I produced deal with dad I would connect with three colleges and when any one of them accepted me, I would go. I placed on a junior college, a situation school, as well as some school within the back woods of Virginia. They all accepted me. I attended the state school.

I think I mentioned this but I’ll say it again my first semester while attending school I had a 60 minute.0 cumulative average. That’s a D. I got instructions from the college telling me to shape up or I was usually asked to leave. I showed the letter to my pops and told him “See I stated I couldn’t undertake it.” He considered me and said “You better undertake it because I am selling the bar.”

I appeared graduating from college with much assistance from professors. My cumulative average: 2.9. If you do the math you will find out that’s just about all straight A’s.

What motivated me you could ask? FEAR using a capital F. I had to practice it. There was no safety net. Yes, I was afraid, scared, and lots of other things nevertheless, you know what… I did it.

I once worked that has a great psychiatrist and that he made probably the most unbelievable statement for me you could ever imagine. He told me “Jim, before younger can be really disciplined, you want fear.”

Not a anxiety about physical punishment but a concern with disappointing someone, or simply a fear of a powerful reaction. I think the term that has gotten lost today is respect. I will usually respect what I fear. Do kids today possess a healthy anxiety about adults? Do they respect adults or also one another? Kids today

believe they will say and do what they really want, whenever they want. It is time to start to instill a wholesome fear again into our little ones and make them shutter at the idea that they can might disappoint someone. I am really tired of the “I don’t care attitude.” If it wasn’t for fear, I couldn’t survive writing this essay right this moment.