Your GPA may be something but not everything...

In this world of endless possibilities, school grades and a slavish devotion to everything academic may be a good thing; just not my thing, and you cannot make it everyone’s thing, neither can it dictate tomorrow's everything. So, my best wishes if your dream is to achieve a magna, summa, egregia or even a maxima cum laude, but that doesn't mean you should think little of some of us that may have fallen for that ‘we-don't-give-a-fuck’ type of attitude in school.

The other day I was talking to a friend about a friend we knew way back, and I told him that if real world success was the ultimate result of excellent academic history, then that dude would’ve been everything he isn't. But that means George W. Bush wouldn’t have managed to become the president of the world’s most powerful country.

So just like having a perfect GPA doesn’t guarantee your success in life, seeking to carve your own path in ways that may seem wild cannot be an indicator for failure. In fact, at some point in your life, your GPA will be as good as irrelevant, because no one will ask what yours was. Or will you dare ask Eminem about his grades to validate the bars he spit?