Why do you want to be a university graduate?

EVERY mother and father hope for their child or children to reach the highest in education. That would mean at the very least, a university education. God knows studying at the university isn't exactly cheap these days.
Students who come from a less than financially secure background need to do part time jobs or try their very best to obtain a scholarship or part scholarship so that they could fulfil their dreams.
University degree ensures that you are at least employable in the eyes of a number of corporations and companies. There will of course be a handful who were pursue knowledge up to PhD level. Good for them.
For the rest of us mortals, we are quite satisfied with our first degree. No need to remind me that Steven Jobs (Apple founder) and Bill Gates are college dropouts. They are more exceptions than the rule.
A university education guarantees that you have set a fine example for your children in future. You have paved the way for them to emulate your example.
You also have pleased your parents. They would want to boast to their friends and relatives that you have done good, thereby making them share in your glory, too.
If you are still single, and later when you get married and have children, you will know what I mean. Being in university and staying the course until graduation means that you have the foresight and determination to do something with yourself.
It also gives your dad a sense of purpose. It will show your mum how much you love her because you are doing your best to make her proud of you. That's the very least you can do. Afterall, she had washed your clothes and fed you for more than two decades and will continue to love you till she dies. Now, isn't that the best deal you have ever had?
Being a graduate also means you will develop some common sense along the way and be a good citizen and a fine gentleman or lady. That, you will one day, maybe, have the opportunity to help others achieve the kind of dreams you have achieved.
In university, you will learn to be broad-minded. You will find out that you know very little despite the number of books you have read and the countless number of hours you have studied.
With God's help, you may learn some humility. It will dawn on you that you are one of the lucky blokes on earth who has the opportunity to study thus far, while millions of others in the same age as you toiling away at meaningless jobs and living a life of quiet desperation.
There is a divine purpose for you to be a university graduate. It is usually to help others do as well as you, or even better. If you have done that well, then your time on earth is not wasted. Flowers will grow on the ground that you have walked on.
So if you have made up your mind to be a university undergraduate, go so with your heart full of joy and your mind a sense of purpose.
It doesn't mean of course that being a graduate that you have all the answers to the world's ills. Not so. It just means you are one of the chosen ones. Nothing happens by accident in life.
Set lofty ideals for yourself. Spread the good word to others that university education not only opens doors but windows to the world of knowledge.
Don't forget however that having an education doesn't mean you are a genius. It's always better to be wise. And wisdom comes from experience and spiritual enlightenment.
Go ahead, you young man and you too young lady. Strive to be best in your educational endeavour. Make something of yourself. This is a cliche, I know but it is so true that the phrase has survived the ages.
Make a fine example of yourself, so that when it's time for you to leave this world, others will sing praises that they have met you and can truly call you a good friend. Loved ones will talk positively about your great contributions to generations who will come after you and to those who will bear your name.