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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:14:07 PM
A Good Lesson is taught for a week and is learned for a lifetime. It can be remembered today. It can be remembered tomorrow. But a Good Lesson doesn't need to be memorized. It will stay with you no matter how far you run away from it.
The Good Lessons taught during marching band season have not drifted away from any of us. Mr. Williams always prepared a motivational speech for the Haughton High School Big Red Band. If something went wrong during a practice, he would throw one of the best speeches in the world. If something didn't go wrong, he'd make something wrong just so he could teach a Good Lesson.
The thing about Good Lessons, though, is that the teacher cannot MAKE you learn them. You have to hear the lesson, practice the lesson, and find motivation from it. It can then be used throughout life. A Good Lesson is only good when you learn and apply it.
Application is the tough part. Yet, nothing is tougher than that of Human Willpower. To tell the truth, there are a lot of things that I never thought I could do, yet I really wanted to. And even though my body wasn't physically capable, I pushed through to the very end. Human Willpower is a miraculous thing, and is the key to Application.
And that is what got the Big Red Band through tough times: Willpower. No matter how many boos or laughs or cheers the crowd gave us...
We wanted to march.
We wanted to win.
We wanted to be a Marching Band.[/SIZE]
The Good Lessons taught during marching band season have not drifted away from any of us. Mr. Williams always prepared a motivational speech for the Haughton High School Big Red Band. If something went wrong during a practice, he would throw one of the best speeches in the world. If something didn't go wrong, he'd make something wrong just so he could teach a Good Lesson.
The thing about Good Lessons, though, is that the teacher cannot MAKE you learn them. You have to hear the lesson, practice the lesson, and find motivation from it. It can then be used throughout life. A Good Lesson is only good when you learn and apply it.
Application is the tough part. Yet, nothing is tougher than that of Human Willpower. To tell the truth, there are a lot of things that I never thought I could do, yet I really wanted to. And even though my body wasn't physically capable, I pushed through to the very end. Human Willpower is a miraculous thing, and is the key to Application.
And that is what got the Big Red Band through tough times: Willpower. No matter how many boos or laughs or cheers the crowd gave us...
We wanted to march.
We wanted to win.
We wanted to be a Marching Band.[/SIZE]
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