The Take-away

 

Paying attention in school was difficult.  I was easily distracted, not just by the other children but distracted by my own thoughts.  The teacher would be up in front of the class jabbering on about something and a word or a phrase would catch my attention.  Once that happened, off I’d go, expanding on that word or idea and I’d be lost for the next several minutes.

Consequently, what I learned in school wasn’t math, science, history or English.  What I walked away with was the knowledge that in life, I needed to pay attention, and maybe that was the best thing I could have learned.