<p>Last spring before I graduated from high school my science teacher gave me an award for my academic performance in her class. I was the science student of the year or something like that. I accepted the award but didn't notify my teacher that I wasn't planning to attend the awards ceremony. According to what I heard, my name was called during the ceremony but naturally no one picked up the award.</p>
<p>I imagine it went like this: my name was called, a few seconds passed, I didn't appear, the person handing out the awards must have briefly mentioned that I wasn't present and called the next name. I can't imagine there was any drama or anything upsetting about my not being there. But maybe my teacher didn't see it that way? She seemed pensive when I went to her office to pick the award the next week. Is it possible that she was upset because I didn't tell her that I wasn't planning to attend the ceremony?</p>
<p>“Yeah… When someone GIVES you something, you need to be there to accept it. You acted as if you didn’t care and it meant nothing to you.”</p>
<p>I didn’t attend the ceremony, but I accepted the award. If I didn’t care about the award I wouldn’t have bothered to accept it. Did I fail to show gratitude for the award? I got the award because I had the highest grades in the class and the award had to go to the person with the highest grades in the class, so there was nothing to be grateful for. The teacher did what she was supposed to do. I wasn’t going to thank her for not giving the award to a less deserving student.</p>
<p>Indecision. And regarding my last post, I feel grateful, but since I don’t think the award is such a big deal I didn’t go away of my way to show gratitude to my teacher.</p>
<p>“Lose some pride. Even if it’s not that big of an award, you should still show up to receive it.”</p>
<p>I think that most proud people would have attended the ceremony and enjoyed the recognition. Since I did the opposite, my choice to not appear at the ceremony probably had little to do with pride.</p>
<p>“I just feel like you think you’re better than the award.”</p>
<p>I can’t think of a human being who isn’t better than an award.</p>
<p>Larrls- Why are you bringing this up? You want to be justified for your actions?
Perhaps your parents and science teacher would have gotten some pleasure seeing you receive recognition for your accomplishments.
But you chose to not show up, entirely your prerogative.
No one cares to argue with you.</p>
<p>Hmmmm. Your question was whether you were disrespectful by not attending the ceremony. I’m afraid your trying to justify your absence but truthfully, you should have been there to acknowledge the recognition for your hard work. Didn’t your parents encourage you to go?</p>
<p>So they laugh and point and whisper about you. So what?
If you are going to go through life worrying about people ridiculing you then you need to be extremely careful about ever doing anything stupid or wrong.
Good luck with your measured, error free, perfect life.</p>
<p>"Didn’t your parents encourage you to go? "</p>
<p>They didn’t.</p>
<p>"If you are going to go through life worrying about people ridiculing you then you need to be extremely careful about ever doing anything stupid or wrong.
Good luck with your measured, error free, perfect life. "</p>
<p>There were kids who made fun of me in high school, and they could have made fun of me during the ceremony.</p>
<p>what a pansy.
you’re asking this because you want to defend yourself when any of us say you were disrespectful and then you come up with bs about how people will laugh at you. I don’t see anything funny about getting an award. :|</p>
<p>Okay, it’s over and you made a mistake. There are still things you need to do. </p>
<p>First, THANK HER!!! for honoring you. That’s absolutely the most important part! She went out of her way to acknowledge you. Now, be sure you tell her how kind that was. </p>
<p>Then, apologize for not being there. But, make a bigger deal about getting the award in the first place and hopefully, she’ll forgive you for missing the kudos.</p>
<p>I’m sorry you were made fun of at school - I understand. But you still should have somehow acknowledged your award. You can still drop an apology note to your teacher - unless of course you don’t think that’s necessary either… </p>
<p>You didn’t start this post out of guilt, did you? If you do feel bad about it, drop her a note even if some time has gone by.</p>