Now, a re-enactment of Obama's speech to College Graduates

*phone rings*

Me: Hello.

Dad: Matt...

Me: I saw you called me a few times yesterday. Is everything alright?

Dad: I have something very important to tell you.

Me: Okay. What is it?

Dad: Please... take a shower.

Me: Huh?

Dad: And wash behind your ears. You were smelling funny yesterday.

Me: But Dad... I said "sorry, I was running around Central Park yesterday."

Dad: You forget to take a bath.

Me: Dad, how am I suppose to take a bath yesterday before you pick me up? Do you know what I'm doing now? Taking a shower!

Dad: Did you took a bath before you go to bed?

Me: Yes, I - wait, why are you talking to me like a child?

Dad: Because you stink like hell yesterday.

Me: I TOLD YOU I WAS RUNNING YESTERDAY!

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”