Children in primary school are told that good grades are the only important thing for them. Parents and teachers and other adults alike may not have all put it as beautifully as the bard put it in Macbeth, but they mean to convey the same idea, that it’s their be-all or end-all.
In junior high, likewise: good grades are the be-all and end-all.
In senior high, the same old thing: good grades so that they can go to university, that’s the ultimate be-all and end-all.
Not true, of course. Good grades and university are important, but they’re not that important. They’re not everything. They’re certainly not the end-all (except, I’m sorry to say, for those university students who commit suicide – after finding it hard to cope with all the brand-new challenges that suddenly spring up after enrolment).
Alternately, over the years, I’ve heard people sort of say that a good job at a State-owned company is their be-all and end-all; that owning a house is a be-all and end-all; that owning a car is a be-all and end-all.
Well, they’re not.
Today, owning the latest smartphone seems to be a new be-all and end-all for young people.
Well, it’s not.
Life goes on. Some brand new challenges are always going to spring up to delight us and surprise us.
Or frighten us, in some cases, unfortunately.
But at any rate, if you have lived some and learned a little, you’d know that hardly anything is be-all and end-all.
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