
On the 3rd Day, discipline
When I was very young, either 7 or 8years (it could have even been six), I took part in a school pageant. I don’t remember the details, but I remember no one won – or rather, everyone won. Whichever way you looked at it, I was slightly disappointed but that’s not the focus here. Each contestant had to pick a topic of interest, write and memorize a speech on it and recite that speech on the day of the pageant. It was a tedious process: re-writing, memorizing, editing and dram