A Memento
We have all gotten an award for something. My first award was for participation in a sheep show. Now on saying that, many people will believe that I shouldn't have gotten an award, that I don't deserve it. They are right, all I did was drag a sheep into a ring, at the age of seven, and held it there. I was the only kid brave enough to do it. I don't need an award to remind me of the courage I had and the reason why I started showing animals in the first place. I still have the ribbon and I treasure it more than my honors club trophy. that is why I believe that giving out participation trophies is perfectly acceptable for these three reasons: they remind us of why we started, the trophies don't spoil kids, and It can mean more to us than it’s worth.
trophies remind us where we started. It's a simple reward system, that they use. starting out you get a participation trophy to make you want more. Then you realize you have to get better at what you are doing to get a bigger trophy, a bigger reward. In my personal experience, I had to practice…show more content… I can't speak for anyone else, nevertheless, I look at my small yellow ribbon and it reminds me of my first showmanship round. I can't really explain why the ribbon that took almost no effort to get means so much to me. It's a physical representation of my past, it brings back memories that I don't actively remember. Nostalgia would probably be the simplest way to describe it, but even then it doesn't feel just right. my ribbon links me to a part of life where everything was simpler; a time before I was possible to ruin.
The true purpose of the participation ribbon is not to make the losers feel better or tell others what we are but to; tells us where we started, and serve as a memento. now a memento can remind us where we started although for me it serves a greater purpose. to take us back before everything got complicated. a time of
