The lessons you learn and skills you obtain in scouting will last your entire life. From pioneering skills with square lashings, survival skills with flint and steel, to first aid, lifesaving, and citizenship, you selected a unique opportunity to improve yourself and the country in which you live. Now it is up to you to determine how you learn, and how you apply this opportunity.
Here is a story told by a Scout Master in the 1970s. There was an Eagle Scout who happened upon a situation where a person was drowning. The scout couldn't assist and the person drowned. The Eagle Scout had gone through all the rank requirements superficially. When it came time to put them in action, he was powerless. The question to you is are you giving scouting your all or are you going along for the ride? But back to the Eagle Scout. After deep soul searching, he began the scouting program again starting with Tenderfoot. It took courage and dedication but he went through the program again, this time learning and applying the skills and knowledge applicable to each rank. He regained his rank of Eagle but this time he had earned it.