On Honors and Awards

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Good Morning Parents, HEDCen students, teachers and friends of The Little Farm House!

Of course, this is the day you validate the effort that you have put in, day in and day out to get to this moment when you can say that you have succeeded.

Indeed you have! But do not forget this.  Einstein himself believes that Not Everything that can be counted Counts, and not everything that Counts can be Counted. 

Try to figure an remember what it means.

Are you as good only as the medals you have won or the honors and awards that you have received?

Yes we can count all these!  Others may even say that it is already a habit to come up here on the stage year after year and once the cycle is broken, everything is broken.  One forgets that a person is not made of certificates and awards.  God did not create a child out of these materials.  Look at yourself.  What are you made of?

You are made of your soul, your bones, muscles, tissues, organs.  Your medals do not hold you up and make you walk or think even.  When you are hungry, your medals cannot even be eaten.

So why will anyone cry a river of tears or put up a protesy just because he is not getting any award.

Can your certificates love you?  Cook for you? Bless you? Heal you? 

I just want to remind you that loving your family and friends and making them smile is another way of looking at awards or rewards.  And yes we do not count the good deeds that we have done. 

I am in awe and I have admired the children who put dedication to learning.  And there are different ways to do that. One is to study to learn.   Another is to make mistakes and learn.

I hope that you see and realize the merits of both.  I hope that you don’t hurt yourself and your souls  for a piece of metal or paper.  I hope that you see yourselves beyond these.  I hope that you appreciate yourselves because of the other beautiful and amazing things that  you are and can become.

 The Dalai Lama said that the planet has enough of successful people.  What our planet desperately needs are peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. 

I hope that your success will lead you to desire to be what our world desperately needs.  

Congratulations students!  And to the parents, May I say that you are the wind beneath your children’s wings.  Congratulations to you too!

 Cheers!!