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Hey y’all,
Back in eighth grade, my class took a big trip to Grand Teton National Park.
It was sort of an “end of middle school extravaganza,” and, of course, everybody wanted to go.
Now, any of you who know how big a nerd I am won’t be surprised to know that I was a pretty good student in middle school. So I felt good about my chances to get on the trip.
That is, until they revealed that they wouldn’t be choosing based on merit, but instead, a lottery system, since that’s the only method that was “fair.”
Of course, you still had to apply and write an essay to get into the lottery, but as far as I know, nobody read or cared much about either one. They just drew the numbers.
And as you might have anticipated, my number wasn’t drawn.
In my memory, many, many more people were chosen than were left behind. But I spent a week in a ghost town of an eighth-grade hallway thinking to myself about all the kids who got to go who “didn’t deserve it,” how unfair the whole system was, and how this “participation trophy” mindset was ruining a whole generation of kids (ok, I probably didn’t have THOSE thoughts until much later).
When everybody got back, I had to endure all their inside jokes about their experiences, hear all the memories made, see all the pictures. It wasn’t fun. It wasn’t “fair.”
And I still haven’t ever gone to Grand Teton National Park.
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