I Give it All, Now There's a Reason, There's a Reason, to Give it All

Today I attended a graduation party with many people. I have never been more acutely aware of how important the people you know are in life, and not what you can do. Throughout my life I have always tried to be the hardest worker I can be, and do my best work. I find it slightly sad that that is no longer what drives the world. At this graduation party, most of the talk done by everyone was of this person or that person who someone knew, and had a lot of money. Most of the graduation gifts were simply money given by rich people that so and so had met, or talked with. There were no stories of hard work, just of networking. As a very unsocial person, who has a hard time meeting and talking with people, this is very troubling for me. I am beginning to wonder if it is even possible for me to make it in this social networking world. Throughout this entire graduation party, I did try to talk to people on multiple occasions, most of which ended in the same way. After being ignored so many times, one begins to just stop trying to communicate. I may be old fashioned, but I wish that it was what you could do and your experience that mattered most, not just who you know.