What is your Recipe for Success?

Bobby Miller was late again, so he took a seat at the back of the classroom, waiting for his name to be called from the list Professor Janis had in his hand. The semester has ended, and summer was showing itself with a 77 degrees temperature in early May. Professor Paul Janis was handing out internships to a list of top students chosen by the University. This was a program that the University was a part of. Bobby waited patiently as each of his classmates picked up their package after their names were called.

Twenty-five names and Professor Janis close his register as the last student took her package and rushed out to her classmates screaming, “Oh Yeah!” in glee.

“Sir,” Bobby called out. “I didn’t get mine.”

Professor Janis looked up at him as he made quick strides towards his desk, sighs and wondered to himself, ‘should I tell him the truth?’ His internal conscience encourages, “Yes, the truth has the power to change many of us for the better.”

These words fell from his mouth unwillingly, mixed in with disappointment and regret, “I am sorry Bobby, but you have been late every day for my class for the past two years I taught you. Your life is a series of tests, and today, you failed this segment,” he paused as the agony of defeat spread across his student’s face.