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So there was this time that...

1:32 PM, 28-May-2008 .. 0 comments .. Link

So there I sat, taking my turn for the Herald covering a high school graduation. I won't mention any names (unless I change my mind later in this post) but a story was recounted to the 500 or so graduates that I feel needs some additional comment.

The speaker launched into a story about a Nerdy Kid carrying lots of books home one day when a group of Cool Kids walked by and knocked them out of his hands. The straggling Cool Kid (who is actually Wonderful Kid in disguise) stops to help Nerd Kid pick up the books.

The two form a casual friendship and Wonderful Kid finds out his new friend enjoys video games and other nerdy things.

Then two weeks before the two graduate years later, Nerd Kid comes up to Wonderful Kid and says "Did you ever wonder, Wonderful Kid, why I was carrying all my books that day oh so many years ago?

"It was because I was taking all my books home before I killed myself. And you saved me because I realized there were good people left in the world."

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Now I don't mind the occasional recounting of a fictional story from an over-hyped book
but the graduation speaker changed the names to Eric and Brian (from Mark and Bill and later on the Intarwebs to Kyle.)

But you're really going to tell me that THAT story is the best one you could come up with? The apocryphal "you-never-know-when-you'll-save-someone-from-suicide" story?

Hundreds of kids are looking for one last bit of wisdom before entering the dark and cruel world (no, I don't really believe that) and there isn't some pivotal moment in your own life or at least a REAL life that can be recounted to the enlightenment or at least amusement of all?

Then again, maybe the senior class that came up with the motto "The Best of the Last" deserves what they got. (If someone can explain that to me, I'll edit this post. But I don't think you can.)
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