It’s so hard
for me to believe that I’m sitting here listening to some guy talk to my son’s
class about “Making Your College Search Count.”
Really? How can this be? It was
just a few years ago when the wife woke me up to say her labor pains were
getting to the point we needed to leave for the hospital. I seriously have never been more excited,
scared, nervous . . . you name it, than I was at that moment. Then after 25 hours of labor, finally getting
the pumpkin-headed kid out via C-section and just sitting in the chair next to
her bed holding him while she slept, I never wanted to let him go.
A little over
seventeen years and three more kids later, here I am thinking that this kid has
absolutely no clue as to what he wants to do with his life and where he wants
to go to college. If I didn’t work with
high school students every day, I would be worried, but I know that my son is
pretty typical. It’s the ones who think
they have their lives all mapped out and who believe they know exactly what they
want to do that worry me more. The
reality is often those kids are as clueless as the others; they just don’t know
it.
Last night on
our way home from my son’s cello lesson, we were listening to a guy from
Stanford talk about entrepreneurship. He
said life is too short to spend it doing things you aren’t passionate about and
that it is really important to surround yourself with smart, quality people of
integrity. It was then I turned to my son and said, “You know, that
will be your saving grace . . . that you pretty much hang around quality kids
and have very little patience for dealing with idiots.”
His response:
“Yep.”
Darren Sombke, father of four, lives with his wife Jungah and their family in northern Illinois. He can be reached at dsombke@rockfordlutheran.org.
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