03197 – Be Kind!
Moore, James

High School Students: Be kind in high school. Be kind. One day you will get to look at your current classmates at a class reunion. You will get to do business with them in your hometown or elsewhere. You will get to teach your former classmates’ children, or doctor them, or save their life in an emergency, or counsel them or sell them a Snickers bar across a retail counter.

Be kind to each other. You will grow up. Five years from now, much less forty years from now, you will realize the stuff you’re tearing each other down about doesn’t matter. It’s cruel. It is not normal. It also serves no purpose. It doesn’t make any of you more successful or more athletic or more beautiful.

Be kind. One day you will have to look at your fellow classmates and say “Wow. Why weren’t we friends in high school? You’re an amazing human being.” I can’t tell you how many times this has happened in my adult life. Be kind. It’s not a competition. You all get to be amazing. I promise. Be kind.

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