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I wanted to drop out of school. For me, high school was really stressful, especially a lot of the social stuff.

My teacher Mr. Coleman figured out what was going on with me and wrote me a long letter. In it he told me that he didn't like high school either and that he only finished because of baseball. Like me he sometimes felt high school was a waste of time and he was too mature to be there.

His letter ended with a story about pebbles. He wrote that a lot of the things we experience, like some classes for example, seem small and unimportant, like a pebble. But in the end we will have accumulated a mountain of pebbles that will add up to a life well lived. I really like that idea.

I'm now in college studying business and marketing. I know that whatever I go on to do, I will live my life by the values Mr. Coleman taught me.