Mediocrity yields stress, frustration & regrets

By Pastor M

The old prof had given the assignment two days before and was collecting the papers. As he turned his in, John thanked his lucky stars that he was one of those academically gifted students who didn’t have to work hard to get an acceptable grade. The next day when he got his paper back, however, he saw that his had been marked in red ink, ‘is this the best you can do?’ Knowing he had been busted, John quickly redid the paper and handed it in again.

At the next class, the prof. once more returned his work with the same comment at the bottom. This went on three more times until in frustration, John finally took his paper to the prof’s office and said to her, ‘I can’t do any better than this!’ At this the prof replied, ‘fine, now I can read it!’