In Like Lions, Out Like Lambs

Its kinda hard when you don’t understand. The problem with life is that we all only grow one way, one perspective in a countless number. The empathy needed can be breathtaking. In travel I have been blessed with meeting a wide cross-section of people. Additionally, I have had the fortune of growing up in a privileged house and have been admitted to a gilded college.

It is only after meeting people who have not had these luxuries, which do not study in the confines of the ivory tower, do I begin to understand how much I do not understand about people. One day, I’ll know how much I don’t know, but I don’t think that will be any day soon.

There’s a lot to learn out there, but perhaps the most important is knowing all that you don’t know. It may be daunting, but to succeed that’s probably necessary. To hold on to that hunger. Too often, especially here at Penn and in the Ivy’s in general, we lose that spirit which got us here in the first place. We are owed nothing, and we will have to continue to claw for every inch we get.