5th Grade Wisdom

I have not written in quite some time, and I have blurbs of ideas saved all over the place. In WordPress drafts, in my Apple notes, written down in notebooks, some saved to memory. All awaiting a moment to sit down and just put my fingers to the keyboard, or even just to recapture the inspiration that started the thought in the first place.
While going through those drafts, I found this one, from four years ago. My oldest baby is in high school and this is about his 5th grade end of year quote. It struck a chord with me because I had not published it (why, I do not know), but, here it is…..
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This week I received an email regarding my oldest son’s yearbook quote. Apparently his elementary school does an entire photo op for the 5th graders along with requiring them to choose a quote to go along with said photo op. Of course, being the control freak I am, I decided I was just going to find something for him and send it to the teacher. But then I decided against that. I decided that he could choose his own, that I wanted him to choose his own, this is a memory for him to look back on, this is his personality that he wants portrayed to others. Not mine. So I charged him with the task of finding his own yearbook quote.
Now, before I share with you what he chose, I want you to ……