Happy new year people, hope you had a good 2014 and wishing you a great 2015. If you haven't already go ahead and read the short article on the picture above. Its hilarious right, a family celebrating a child who placed third to the last in her examinations, just imagine you came home with a result like that back in the day, how would your parents have reacted to it? I remember the times i didn't place in the first three positions in class in primary school i would get a lecture about how i needed to do better, even when i did but didn't place first i would still be reminded that the person or people who beat me did not have two heads, but here we have a family celebrating a failure so to speak. At first i was confused as to why they would celebrate such a thing but then i imagined the scenario playing out in my head, here we have parents who watch their kid fail completely every time she writes an exam, always placed dead last and having to look at the sadness and tears in her eyes every single time, no parent can just keep punishing such a child who makes obvious efforts to improve but keeps failing. The teachers and students at her school probably already told her how much of a failure she is why would her parents make her feel worse than she already did. So when they saw the joy in the little girl's face when she didn't place last as usual they could not help but be happy, for the first time their little girl felt she was better than what society labeled her to be. To everyone else that was an insignificant improvement but no to the little girl and the joy she felt must have moved her parents, and that makes perfect sense to me.
The lesson here is no matter how insignificant something might seem to you, it might mean something to someone else don't look down on something just cuz it holds not importance to you.
