PAPA’S ADVICE-DON’T WEAR MASK

PAPA’S ADVICE-DON’T WEAR MASK

‘Papa, you know I quit wearing mask when I was a lot younger, unless it’s a joke or Halloween I never wear mask anymore.’

Sorry kiddos, we all wear mask.  It gets a lot easier to not wear them as we get older, but all of you have a ways to go before ‘getting older’ applies to you.  I think part of the problem is that we learn to wear them as little kids and like I've talked about earlier lying and making excuses, it just becomes part of us and easy when we need to be someone we are not. 

Every kid learns early the fun in being someone they are not.  I have never seen a child who did not enjoy wearing a mask, a costume or something to create that feeling of being someone else.  I cherish the memories of each one of you being someone else.  For a short time when you were masking and dressing the make believe part you were that person, whether it was Harry Potter, Superman, Bob the Builder or a Princess from a thousand stories.  I laughed, your parents laughed and for the brief moment you were the person you wanted to be. 

Great actors wear similar mask.  They become the character in story they are telling and portraying.  Actors go to great lengths to achieve the mask they use to convince you they are the person so important to the story they are telling.  The gain and lose considerable weight, change their hair and eye color.  They dress in costumes appropriate for the role until the audience forgets the real person and who they really are.  A successful actor fully involves his audience in the life of the pretend person to the extent reality is lost in the script.  Again we see this so much we become actors in our real lives and rely on mask and images that hide who we really are and hide who we truly are from those around us. 

Seems to me one of the first things we want to hide is the fact we are really a good person.  Our desire to be ‘like’ everyone else drives us to masking the real person we are in order to ‘fit-in’ better, be more like the crowd, not comfortable with what we know to be good and right.  I have always thought this is one of the primary reasons for using vulgar and profane language.  As I entered my teen years I wanted to be like those I thought had it all together and figured out.  Those kids were older, and I felt wiser, so if they cursed I wanted them to think I was just a cool as them, therefore I should mask who I really was and cuss.  I wore that bad guy mask in many situations as I matured.  I wanted those around me to think I was cool so when an older person would refer to his mother as his ‘old lady’, I got behind my mask and always outside my mom or dad’s hearing I would refer to my fantastic parents as my ‘old lady’ and ‘old man’.  I was fairly bright as a student but since the majority of those around me made average grades I put on my ‘average guy’ mask and prove to those I knew that I was not very smart but just average.  As I have gotten older I wonder if everyone was not doing the same thing and as a group we were not really a bunch of pretty smart folks just masking ourselves to fit a role we perceived to be cooler. 

What really haunts me today is the mask I wore until really later in my life where I wore the mask hiding the fact I really wanted to be a decent person.  I didn’t necessarily want to be known as someone who was trying to live like I knew I should.  I never denied my religious beliefs but sure never did a very good job promoting them to others.  I never wanted anyone to know there were some things I just would not do or other good things I’d rather do.  If a friend wanted to play golf on Sunday (and who doesn’t want to play golf anytime), I would easily slip into my mask hiding the real me, who knew I should be in church.  If I met someone new in my circle of friends, I knew I should invite to worship, out would come the mask hiding the Papa who knew he should ask them to church, to ask if they wanted to play golf on Sunday morning. 

I never used to mask to do anything criminal or extremely bad I just used it to avoid doing what I really knew to be right.  We all are guilty of this masking to some extent.  Whether it is a matter of not having the nerve to be a little different or a desire to be something we are not, we all remember how we could tie towel around our necks and be ‘Superman’. 

I mentioned getting older and it becoming easier to avoid the mask now.  It is not easier; I think I have just figured out how to explain in a way I better understand. It is so much better to be genuine; your parents have a lot of experience and have taught you well.  You access to great schools and churches, you are very smart and know what is right at even a young age.  Be the people you have been taught to be.  The person who is the leader, the one others look up to and admire because you know who you are and are true to yourself.  What you are is plenty if you have applied yourself.  You don’t have to be like everybody else.  If you believe in doing right, do it and be an example.  If you believe in Christ and his message, then let people know and don’t hide it, this message has lasted over 2000 years, and it’s nothing to shy away from.  If you are smart don’t hide it, don’t flaunt it like cheap perfume but wear it with dignity so others can aspire to take more pride in their gifts. 

There are many ‘mask’ we all wear.  You are a child of God, made in his image; you really don’t need a ‘mask’.     

SABAN WINS BIG BET

Lot of talk going on about Nick Saban hiring Lane Kiffin to be his new OC.  Few people know all the facts and it is really causing a stir here in Alabama.  I learned from highly reliable sources just what happen and you 'ain't' going to believe how it came about.

Seems Saban had a few friends over to his gazillion dollar house in Tuscaloosa for drinks and to shoot a little pool after he got home from the Sugar Bowl where he had just seen his 'process' shoved down his throat or up something else by Big Game Bob Stoops.  After a couple of drinks, Saban's mentor and close friend 'The Devil' started pulling the coach's chain and laughing at the Coach, telling him if he kept loosing to the likes of Auburn and Big Game Bob he would lose his super natural hold on the BAMA fan base.  A couple of the Devil's disciples got in on the action and the 'Lil Nicky' persona began to appear.  The more they laughed at him the more he fumed until a cue ball actually exploded on the table next to where 'The Devil' and 'Lil Nicky' were playing.

"I'll tell you one thing you long tail fire breathing scum", 'Lil Nicky' screamed to 'The Devil', "I can still do anything I want and they will beg me to stay and give me a $2,000,000 raise.  They will never leave me nor forsake for anything.  I am bullet proof and invisible here, and my Updykes will forever give me what ever I want."

'The Devil' not appreciating being called a fire breathing scum, slithered around the table and got right in 'Lil Nicky's' face.  "I'll bet I can make them forget you and start looking for someone else in less than a month", screamed the really tic'd off head Satan.  "Do it said 'Lil Nicky', I will bet you the souls of 100 prospects against another lake house if you do it".  'The Devil' laughed and told 'Lil Nicky' he would take the bet on one condition.  Saban had to let 'The Devil' run his OC (some guy name Nussmier) out of town and let him hire his replacement.  'Lil Nicky' laughed up his sleeve, he was going to get rid of that guy anyway, so no way could he lose.

The old OC was gone but in keeping with his bet, Saban was forced to allow 'The Devil' to hire Kiffin.
The next day Nussmier was gone, Kiffin was wearing houndstooth, Saban had a new house while Phylis from Mulga and Jim from Tuscaloosa were declaring another National Championship because BAMA had hired a true genius.

Will long be known as the day Saban got into 'The Devil's' pocket, but saved 100 souls.

AIN'T NO HORSES THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN RODE

I am so fortunate in so many ways it is hard to count.  I learned early on and in a not so easy fashion something about losing that has stuck with me and really helped.  I know the old saying about 'showing me a good loser and I'll show you a loser'.  That seems to be the guiding light for those who have never been in the arena.  A more accurate saying is the one from the old west that says 'there ain't a horse that ain't been rode nor a rider that ain't been trowed,.

My lesson came the Friday night after Thanksgiving in 1961.  My High School in Haleyville was the center of the High School football world in Northwest Alabama.  Coach Bubba Scott had built a powerhouse in our 3A Division.  We could beat anybody, we carried a 28 game win streak into that Thanksgiving weekend back in 1961. We were to play Russellville on that night.  Russellville was probably our biggest and most bitter rival. Win streaks were never more than one or two games but the Haleyville Lions had been on a pretty good streak and we felt unbeatable.  Though Coach Bill Doty of Russellville was also a great coach we had Bubba Scott and Ted Logan which surely gave us a two or three touchdown advantage.  That particular year we really had the best collection of small town talent to ever come along.  Both tackles were college bound and being recruited by major universities.  Russell Cheatem eventually signed with Auburn and Jim Roberts with UNA.  Our quarterback Jimmy Kent Israel was a major target of none other than Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant and eventually signed with Alabama.  Jim Long was a natural and played later at both Marion Military and Samford.  Bob Masdon was the greatest athlete I ever saw come through Haleyville and played later at Samford.  The rest of the team made us a group that had been part of those 28 straight wins. After this game my senior class the next year went undefeated with only a tie with Scottsboro on our record. In short  we were the horse that ain't never been rode and the rider that ain't never been trowed.

I believe now Coaches Scott and Logan probably knew we were in for what could be a real 'ass wuppin' the weeks leading up to the game.  These guys detested 'trickery football' like they did the devil.  Strangely during the week before the game we installed some 'trickery' we had never seen.  Bobby Masdon was to start the game with a 'lonesome end' play.  He was to line up, without going to the huddle, on our sideline and all the scrubs like me were to stand behind him to camo him from the Russellville defense.  Jimmy Kent was to take the snap, stand up and hit Bobby in full stride to deliver our first blow to the enemy.  Didn't work and that was not the last thing that didn't work that night.  The coaches had also prepared us for a tackle eligible to Russell or Monk (not sure which one) which was even less successful that the 'lonesome end'.

In short we got the hell beat out of us that night.  We were good but on that night Russellville was the better team.  We came back the next year and without Russell, Monk, Jim Long and the rest of those great Seniors of the 1962 Class beat the Golden Tigers 28-14.  Even though my contribution that night was limited to standing on the sideline behind Bobby for the 'lonesome end' play or hiding behind someone when it looked like Russell or Monk were coming out, that was the only game I dressed out in 3 years of High School when the Haleyville Lions lost.  Other than Bob Masdon, Jimmy Kent and maybe Paul Roberts and Stan Thornton I do not remember any other underclassman playing.  It was a total annihilation of a good but not great team. We were good before and we were good after but that night we met a superior force.

So when I see these fans start posting in social media about modern day players messing up or coaches getting out coached it really makes me want to lash back (puke). No 'your' kids played hard, the coaches did everything they could, sometimes you just have to remember 'there ain't a horse that can't be rode nor a rider that can't be trowed'.

WAR EAGLE and ROLL TIDE. .

PAPA’S ADVICE –MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY

‘I’ll be so happy when I finally win the lottery and have all the money I will ever need.  I know I’d be happy if I really had a fairy God mother.’

O.K. guys this one could really be important.  In 67 years I have learned a pretty important lesson I don’t remember being taught in simple plain words.  The Bible addresses it in many places but I need it laid out a little more simply.  NO ONE OR ANY ONE THING IS GOING TO MAKE YOU HAPPY.  If you are waiting for that fairy god mother or magic wand to appear and make you happy every day of your live you are out of luck.  It ain’t gonna happen, book it, take my word and carry it to the bank. 

But I have found you can be happy where ever you are and what ever situation you find yourself in if you follow a few simple principles.  It all depends on you and how much you want it.  I know so many people today and throughout my life that are waiting and will always be waiting for someone to make them happy.  Someone with a lot of money, that has access to something they want or just someone who will furnish all those people believe necessary to be happy.  IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN. 

Other people and outside influences can show you a good time for a short period of time.  All of you have what amounts to the fairy god mother image I mentioned earlier.  A special person it might be a relative or friend of your mom and dad’s, or just someone you know in some way.  Every time you are around them you have a blast.  They may have a place at the lake or on the beach; they may just make sure you never run out to donuts or funnel cake, they just seem to love you and treat you so great you always have a blast when they are around.  This is fantastic for you.  You really are having a great time and it is probably because they love you very much.  Enjoy it and always be appreciative for all they do.  But this is not to be confused with true happiness.  It would not be happiness if you lived with them and received the same treatment every day.   Happiness is still there when the donuts and funnel cakes run out.  Your ability to be happy is what sees you through those days that don’t go so good.

You happiness comes from you.  From inside you, a lesson your parents teach you when they demand you start task and most importantly finish task.  My parents were the greatest ever.  From an early age, because of the business they owned, I learned to work, to be accountable and to finish.  Later I had coaches who demanded I do things I literally hated doing, and I had to do them over and over until I got it right.  I know I learned something there I have carried for the balance of my life that has help me to remain happy in any circumstance.

 

First remember true happiness comes from you relationship with God.  Without a strong belief that God has your back I can’t imagine being happy.  Next I believe happiness is the result of the feeling you get when you accomplish something good.  I don’t care what it is.  If your mom tells you to clean your room and you do it, not half way by filling your closet and hiding stuff under the bed, but really clean it the way she wants it, then you experience happiness.  As you grow in your education process, nothing brings any more happiness that when you complete a test or course where you have really studied and learned.  You have gone beyond the homework assignment and really thought through the course matter and have mastered it evidenced by a good grade.  In your work life the same is true, you are happy when you complete your task after totally applying yourself and successfully doing your work. 

This happiness is not dependent on the large most obvious things I have discussed.  There are literally dozens of opportunities you build your happiness from the time you wake up until you finally go to sleep at night.  A winning day fills your happiness battery for days to come.  Your first win comes when you first wake up.  Thank God for a new day and ask him to direct your steps and actions for the rest of the day. (Mean it)  Next without anyone telling you get up clean yourself and your room and whatever mess you made the night before and get to breakfast.  You will be shocked at how happy you are.  Next help your family get ready to get about whatever the day brings.  Right here in less than an hour you have personal victories that will put deposits in you happiness bank.  Continue through the day to do the things you are supposed to and need to without being told or if directed with a willing attitude.  Completing the jobs creates happiness.  No matter how big or how small, no matter how rich you are or how poor, you are a winner and winners are happy people. 

Now let me explain why this works.  Whenever you fail to complete any task you undertake or are assigned what happens?  You don’t want to face the person you were doing the task for.  You immediately start worrying about the excuse you are about to make and the explanation of why the job did not get done.  What’s worse is convincing yourself you really didn’t feel like doing it or it was a stupid unneeded task in the first place.  The justifying doing a poor job or no job at all becomes baggage you carry until you start working on the next excuse or fabricated reason for not preforming to you best.  No one can be happy managing all this baggage.  Get rid of it and start making those deposits in the ‘happy’ bank.

IN SUMMARY:

1.     Don’t wait on someone to make you happy.  It is no one else’s job. 

2.     You do the work to get you where you want to go. 

3.     Don’t ever get having a good time get mixed up with being happy.

4.     Create a day’s worth of winning by starting with the simplest task then keep adding as the day goes on.

5.     God wants you to be happy, he gave you the tools to achieve it.

6.     Don’t whine, I hate whiners. 

Coach John Wooten was so great and wise there are so many quotes by him but here are a couple that really makes the my point.

-"Discipline yourself, and others won't need to," Coach would say. "Never
lie, never cheat, never steal," and "Earn the right to be proud and
confident." 

- "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." 

"Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket... keep it in your own."  ---unknown

NORMAN LOSER'S-REAL OPENING DAY

Well Vandy mite near licked all the red off Johnny Reb’s candy again last night.  Neither team could have felt too bad because both seem better than last year and played for a full 60 minutes.  Both showed the rest of college football the way the game should be played and will both end up in bowls again this year. 

I also heard what a Tar Heel is from my boy Bubba.  He explained it is that mound of used tars taken from wrecked cars and trade-ins that pile up in a junk yard before they catch fire and burn for six months.
Thus ‘Tar Heel’

Now for the real opening day.

GEORGIA vs CLEMSON
Hide your women and children and put the dog outside because this one should be a slobber knocker.  Both the Dogs and the Tigers should score a bob tail truck load of points.  Neither of the head coaches, who happen to both be former Mouseketeers , have ever been able to win one or two games each year that would really set them apart.  They both have tremendous offenses with all kinds of explosive skill players so the two questions here is can either on stop the other of who will have the ball last.  Both should be in their conference championship game if they can figure out how to give their defenses a huge dose of Kaopectake and stop the other a couple of times.  Determining factor here for me is how can I pull against a guy from Alabama with guts enough to go by the name of ‘Dabo’. 
NORMAN’S  LOSER:  GEORGIA  by 5. 

MISSISSIPPI STATE vs OKLAHOMA STATE

Bless his heart the little troll, Dan Mullen, has had Mississippi State fans under ether for several years now.  They are about tired of hearing how he coached Tim Tebow and was the real brains in Gainesville during those glory years under the bigger fraud Urban Meyer.  In the meantime Mike Gundy has just about proven he is a ‘man’ and is now a few years past 40 which he claimed qualified him to be a man several years ago.  Oklahoma State has proven they are contenders with Oklahoma, Kansas St. and the other real teams in the Big 12.  Mullen has some experience on the offense in his QB and RB but they can’t play with the big boys and the Cowboys will ride them like Roy Rodgers on a 10 year old mare. 
NORMAN’S LOSER:  MISSISSIPPI STATE by 2 touchdowns. 

ALABAMA vs VIRGINIA TECH

‘TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTIES OVER.’  ‘Little Nicky’ will not let the band open with Don Meredith’s old song out of respect for Frank Beamer’s legendary career,  but it is only because he has good West Virginia manners.  The CIA, FBI, Finebaum nor any other expert in finding weakness can find one on the Alabama team.  They can probably be beat, if they beat themselves, but it won’t happen in an opening game where Sabin, Kirby Smart and Wesley Neighbors have had 7 months to prepare.  Yeldon , Cooper, McCarron and the rest of the first team should not play beyond the first quarter and the babies behind them will have a hard time keeping this game respectable. 
NORMAN’S LOSER:  VIRGINIA by   (you name it)

WASHINGTON STATE vs AUBURN

What happens when a pirate goes head to head with a bus, the pirate ends up road kill.  The pirate Mike Leach’s air attack will look like the Hindenburg when this one is over.  Neither team should have played in a good Pop Warner league last year, they both stunk.  The difference here is that Auburn had some real players, they just had no idea how to coach them.  The Cougars on the other hand had the Pop Warner guys and they have not had the time necessary to equip Leach with the tools to perfect his air war.  Ellis Johnson’s defense will win this one in a hurry.  This is a perfect opener for the Gus Bus to teach a little driver’s education to a talented but untested Nick Marshal and Rodney Gardner’s chargers will feast on a much smaller and less athletic offensive line. 
NORMAN’S LOSER:  WASHINGTON STATE  by 15

KENTUCKY vs WESTERN KENTUCKY

Bobby Petrino is back on the motorcycle and riding the country roads again.  Mike Stoops like the last 34 football coaches at my old Kentucky home has had nearly a year now to convince the 6,000 football fans in Kentucky football is a real sport, but selling and producing are two different matters.  Coach Bryant is credited with saying he could take his and beat yours and he could take yours and beat his.  This game will prove Coach Bryant right.  Neither team has the talent Motorcycle Bobby is use to but he will take his and beat Wildcats like he should before he packs up and heads for Austin Texas to replace Mack Brown. 
NORMAN’S LOSER:  KENTUCKY by 10. 

LSU vs TCU

The battle of the initials. Say what you want, Les Miles is a factor.  Like a big old cat lying in the bushes, Miles has suffered the last 7 months in silence following a less than stellar year.   He has quietly reloaded and is ready to surprise a lot of people this year.  ‘The Hat’ is never short on talent and has a staff that can coach them.  Gary Patterson on the other hand has his picture in dictionary next to ‘big fish in a small pond’.  He continues to astound fans with his winning ways playing in a conference (Big 12) with at most 4 teams out of 12 that could compete in the Sun Belt.  ‘The Hat’ is coming back strong, he will contend in the SEC this year and may be the only real outside challenge to ‘Little Nicky’, so don’t think TCU will even  be in this one much past kick off. 
NORMAN’S LOSER:  TCU by 21. 

The other SEC games are not worth ole Norman’s time.  Somebody has got to stop this kind of bloodletting just to have a few exhibition games. 

TENNESSEE vs AUSTIN PEAY
Only thing notable here is AUSTIN PEAY’S  battle cry.  “LET’S GO PEAY”
NORMAN’S LOSER:  AUSTIN PEAY by (whatever)

TEXAS A & M vs RICE
TEXAS A&M by 25 even with Johnny Cash on the bench for 30 minutes
NORMAN’S LOSER:  RICE by 30

ARKANSAS vs LOUISIANA (RAGIN GAJUNS )
Will probably be a decent game I’m just too tired to mess with it and don’t really care.
NORMAN’S LOSER:  LOUISIANA

FLORIDA vs TOLEDO
You’ve got to be kidding.
NORMAN’S LOSER: TOLEDO by (a ton)

NORMAN'S LOSERS--OPENING DAY

North Carolina vs South Carolina 

I know the only person who ever lived that could come close to telling us how the North Carolina Tar Heels feel going into tonight’s game was Old Testament hero David.  Not since the day little undersized David slew the giant Goliath with five slick, smooth river rock has anyone felt pressure like this.  Jadeveon Clowney makes Goliath look like Michael Corleone’s brother Fredo.  Sun Visor Steve has been building for this year since he came to Columbia and the S.C. fans are more anxious to see their pit bull released than the Romans were on hungry lion day.  S.C. may go all the way this year and let Steve go out with one more SEC if not National Championship.  It will take Clowney a quarter or maybe into the second quarter to totally suck all the air out of a brave but under matched bunch of Tar Heels (what is a Tar Heel) but believe me this one is at least a 20 pointer.  Norman’s loser, North Carolina.

Ole Miss at Vanderbilt

I know the hype.  Vanderbilt is finally a contender, the little coach that jumps up and down like an old time shortstop has them believing.  But come on, it’s Vanderbilt.  The same Vanderbilt the Smoot kid from Miss State made the offer to not hit them if they did his homework.  Ole Miss is going to be pretty good if they can figure out what they are.  Are the Rebels or Black Bears or just drunk?  Whatever they are still on the high from last year where they actually looked like a football team and the fans actually stayed in the stands and out of the grove until the end of most games.  We need a game to really get into and start practicing our taunts of ‘wait till you play us’ but this is not the game.  Ole Miss by at least 14 and Vanderbilt back to looking for Duke and Wofford.  Norman’s loser, Vanderbilt.

PAPA'S ADVICE--GET AN EDUCATION

I’m going to get my high school diploma, then a degree from college and I will have my ticket punched to fame and fortune.  I know because my guidance counselor told me a degree is the ticket.  Wrong

A degree from any level of formal education is worth about as much as the Vice Presidency was when John Nance Garner described the office, while being sought to fill it by President Franklin Roosevelt,  as “not worth a warm bucket of spit”.  You are thinking old papa has lost his mind.  You know you don’t want your mother or dad to read this.  Poor old Papa has really lost it and should be put away you think, but not so fast grasshoppers.  Papa did not say an education was not important, I said a degree does not mean anything if it does not truly represent the education one has gained to be used the rest of your life. 

We (our country) have become so focused on getting the ‘degree’ we have lost sight of what it should represent.  A ‘degree’ means absolutely nothing.  You can get them by mail order,  get them on-line and really just make one up and fill in the blanks.  There was a time in earlier generations when a ‘degree’ really meant something.  The only place you could get one was from an institution with few students, a dedicated faculty,  single minded and focused on teaching and having their students learn, and students who recognized they were there to learn and develop and not simply to get a thick sheet of paper signed by the president of the school.  In those days even the high school diploma represented a completion of a learning experience and not just a preliminary step to nowhere.   

  

Don’t get me wrong.  I know there are great teachers in every school who do all they can to stimulate you to learn, but I don’t feel they do enough to teach you why you learn and what learning really is.  Even the great teachers are working on timelines and quotas to meet goals designed by someone probably far away that fails to take into consideration the individual student’s abilities, motivations and correct pace to learn.  
Everything is geared to the average and there are few average people alive. 

Learning originally was self-motivated and driven by the individual student searching and seeking to learn something that would serve him/her in life.  Universities grew because people sought out scholars and wise men from which to learn.  There were neither grades nor time period for a course of study.  The student would search and explore whatever he was seeking until he understood it as much as possible.  Soon man learned a well-rounded education prepared him even better and the individual scholars, experts in their own fields, taught in one single geographic location so the students could study the various subjects in one place, thus the liberal arts education. 

The magic here comes not from the teacher or institution but from the student.  Now I hope each of you seek and obtain a Liberal Arts education.  I think it prepares one better for a fuller life.  This may not be the best for everyone, but education is essential for everyone.  You may be better suited for a razor focused specific skill or trade education.  The point I want to make is that no matter what you are best suited for and what you intend to do, don’t expect success just because you obtain a degree.  Expect success when you, by your own wit and intellect seek knowledge and wisdom for the sole sake of making you a more complete person, not for the sake of getting some degree anyone with enough money and time can get. 

Get the education forget the degree.  The degree should evidence what you have accomplished.  It is important to communicate just what it should, that you have sought wisdom, have paid a price in time and effort of obtain it and most important you can apply the wisdom you have learned.  The degree should not represent you stayed long enough to get the teachers and courses necessary to get a passing grade without working, without thinking and without struggling to internalize everything you could.  It should tell the world you took full advantage of the opportunity afforded you. 

LEARN, DON’T JUST GO TO SCHOOL.