Last month, at BYU graduation, President Worthen gave a great talk . He told the backgrounds of how the letter y in our alphabet came to be and also how the Y on the mountain came to be. The story of how the Y on the mountain came to be is a story of rival classes trying to outdo each other and then fatigue because the project they attempted was too big. But Pres. Worthen said this: "Symbols such as the letter y or the Y on Y Mountain ultimately gain meaning in our lives not so much because of their physical shape or presence but because of what we choose to make of them. Likewise, the meaning of events in our lives will be determined not so much by the events themselves but by how we choose to view and respond to them. And that in turn is shaped dramatically by the perspective from which we choose to view both the symbols and the events in our lives. " Yesterday for Memorial Day, we did our traditional Hike to the Y I really l...