The Greatest Lesson in Life is Golf

You ever wonder why people call golf a lesson in life? I've always heard the saying and just shrugged it off, never really poking around to find the meaning. I can understand how it can be compared to life in that golf is a sport of honor and trust and dignity. If you are trying to carefully remove a couple twigs and leaves away from your mis-hit drive and your ball happens to move even a slight bit, the honorable and the correct thing to do is tell your playing partner and/or rules official and take your penalty. But choices like that aren't only to be made in golf.

As a golfer, a part-time employee, and a full-time student, I've come to realize in the recent years that the choices I make have great impacts and consequences in the near futures. The importance of priorities in my life at this point in time are 1) school. 2) friends/family. 3) golf. 4)work. That's what they should be. What they are in reality are 1) friends/family. 2) golf. 3) school. 4) work.

Dad always says: "The decisions you make will show in the end, hard work works." I've never been one to make bad grades, fail classes, get fired from jobs, or even quit from jobs. I'm a level-headed, responsible, hard-working person, however, with the help of the flu, followed directly by a week break of school, followed even closer by a not-so-serious disease called "Senioritus," troubled times are in front of me and there's nothing I can do about it except take Dad's lesson to heart, buckle my seat belt, and hope the ride to the end isn't as bumpy as I think it's going to be.