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The thing about this life that stands out to me the most is that the only constant in life is change.
We change our clothes, we change our minds, we change our lives through the little things we do each day.
This milestone is not an everyday occurrence but rather one we need to strive in repeating. Albert Einstein once said “Imagination is more important than knowledge…” self affirming that if you can dream it, you can accomplish it. He didn’t even graduate High School. Imagine that.
He also said: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
What do you know?
We may not know everything we need to know at every given moment it is called for, but we continue imagining a solution, an algorithm if you may and we own our learned solutions. The important thing is to continue teaching by example for ourselves, our friends, our family, our class.
To out class the rich, enrich the out classed. Just don’t tell them that your doing that.
Humility is weighed not by Nobel Prize’s, but by the acts of kindness that can and do change the world. In a world stricken by so many evils, the best thing to do is to just be good.
There is a story that I heard that I refer to more often than perhaps any other story.
Mahatma Ghandi lived his life entrenched in his own teachings by method, a method we could all learn from.
There was a boy and a mother who came to him one day in town. The mother asked Ghandi to tell her boy to stop eating sugar. Mahatma asked the mother if she could return to him in two weeks time to settle the matter. Bewildered, the mother and boy agreed, and they left.
Two weeks later, when they returned Ghandi told the boy to stop eating sugar. The mother exclaimed “Why couldn’t you do this two weeks ago?” Mahatma replied that two weeks ago he himself was still eating sugar and had no room to speak.
What a message. Do as I do, not just as I say.
Taking the time each day in this example to pass on what we can of our own core beliefs and values is very valuable indeed. And we can instill them in our future children by building our foundations on this kind of solid footing.
Today we celebrate our diversity as a whole, represent our achievements in a group and pass the torch to those who will follow remembering that unity is a singleness of purpose that defies the ill will of the few with the sheer power of acting together.
Let us make this day not only for us, but for this place in our history.
Let history repeat itself though not only in our deeds, but in where we come from taking us where we can go next. Another graduation, another mile marker, another O-M-G, another L-O-L, another IDK but that’s ok. If it’s ok with Einstein, it is ok with me.
What is ahead? The same as is behind, only better. Better programming, better technology, better engineering, better cars, better food, better commencement speeches. Ones written by you the same way you inspired me to write this one.
Lastly I want to say that we live in a country deeply divided in it’s politics. The timeline of the recent past shows that we are in desperate need of someone to step up and be the next leader through the virtues of their compassionate works.
If you spend each day doing one act of kindness, each day you will make one friend. At the end of each year your Facebook won’t know anything but good deeds on the list. Well, maybe not the comments.
But if each day you strove to right wrongs, to notice and speak up about hurts we have caused, to build peace in your school, in your home, and in your community you will have the most precious of gems at your disposal.
A well spent human life.
