fenwaydav's Blog

I know a girl who is graduating from Dental School.   Her parents are coming in from New Jersey for the ceremonies next week, and couldn't be prouder.   I find it funny that her mother's question to her was "Why did you pick a profession that hurts so many people".  She feels that she will be helping so many people.  She's right! In September she starts a years residency in a Newark Hospital and after that she can decide if she wants to specialize or go into a general practice. 

How does a person decide they want to be a Dentist? For that matter how does one at such a early age decide anything so hard.  When given the choice 37 years ago I choose the Navy.   If you didn't go into the service, they said you were running away from Vietnam.   After the Navy, college was the last place I wanted to go.  Stupid, stupid me.... My nephew went to college for 2 years only to decide at the last moment he didn't like the courses he was taking and decided to drop out and go to a 2 year culinary school.  Upon graduation,  he took the NY State Police test and is a Trooper Upstate NY.  My brother and sister-in-law couldn't be prouder.  He and his wife couldn't be happier.   She loves the fact, that he does most of the cooking.

To all the GRADUATES out there, I hope all your dreams are fulfilled.  If you a graduating from Kindergarten, may you start growing into the person you've yet to relize.  If you are graduating from High School,  I hope by now you have become the human being we so desperately need.   If you are graduating from College,  I hope your chosen profession is one that you will love.  Wheither you are a Dentist or a State Trooper or a Rocket Scientist, I hope you can do your job with pride and maybe change the world just one little bit if only in your little neck of the woods.  My mother would always tell me and my other siblings,  it doesn't matter what you become in life just do it the best you can. 

Each generation has heard about the crazy times we live in.   I know during the 70's the kids were rotten and the world was falling apart.  Here we are in 2008 and the world is still  falling apart.  I hope you Graduates can go forward and help make this place a little better...GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS.....