The Fear of Failure

She stopped the class, she had them list the names of their classmates on two sheets of paper. Was a small group, and in the space between each name, she'd have them write down the nicest thing they could say about that classmate. Several years later, she got a message from the parents of one of her students in that class. His name was mark, and he was killed in the war. She went to the funeral, and all the classmates were there. And at one point, mark's father said he wanted to show her something. They found the sun mark when he was killed, and we thought you might recognize it. He carefully removed these two worn pieces of notebook