Nine Years Later

I received my college diploma in the mail several days ago, and it has caused me to become reflective. When I was seventeen, I almost failed out of high school. At the time I hated school and genuinely disliked attending. In retrospect, I blame a combination of laziness, ADD, and boring subject matter. To think that 9 years down the road I would have a college degree was quite unthinkable to me as a teenager. When I returned from my two year church mission, I began attending an open enrollment college, even taking pre-college math for two semesters just to catch up. My plan is to continue attending school until I am in the position where statistically speaking I can never be poor. It is not that I have restless nights dreaming about Ferraris or Rolex wristwatches, but still, I have a paramount fear of financial failure. Hopefully this fear can propel me for another 3 to 4 years.