This is a true story about a boy who, the world might say,
was a terrible underachiever. While in the eighth grade, he failed subjects
repeatedly. High school wasn’t much better; he flunked Latin, Algebra, English,
and received a grade of zero in Physics. The boy managed to make the school
golf team, but he lost the most important golf match of the season, and even
though there was a consolation match, he failed miserably in that too.
It’s not that his peers disliked this boy; it’s just that
they never really seemed to notice him much. Even “Hellos” in the hall were a
rarity. Out of all the failures in his life, there was something that did hold
great importance to this boy, his love of drawing. Although in high school, the
cartoons he submitted to the yearbook were rejected, once out of school, the
boy was so sure of his artistic talent that he approached Walt Disney Studios
with drawing samples. I wish I could say the studio executives loved his work
and immediately hired him, but such was not the case; another huge rejection.
