What's In A Name?

I always believed that the reward will be the university I study in. The name. Wharton. Berkley. McGill. York. It was always that that I strived every single day for. And at the end of the line, I don't have that name. Not because of any inability on my part academically, but perhaps my inability to prepare for the unexpected.

Having to study in a less reputed institution and being fairly happy about it only makes me wonder what it really was that kept me going. In an episode of One Tree Hill that I watched, the insignificance of 'the name' arose. It's just a name. What you do with it is up to you.

At the end of the day, it is the person you are, the limits (by your defintion) of life that you push that matter. It becomes important therefore to put 'your all' into everything that you do. It doesn't matter if you are the most famous person in the world or if you have a mediocre job and a mediocre life in a city you've lived in your whole life. But if you have failed to make a difference in your own sphere of influence, however big, you have not lived!

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
-- William Shakespeare.