Hello Everyone!
It has finally come to the glorious day we have either once experienced, will experience, or for me have the honor of experiencing today. Today is graduation day- HOORAY!! It is a huge deal and I’ve only come to understand that today. Did you know that as of today only 6.7% of the world receives their bachelor’s degree?
As Aldai Stevenson once said to college graduates, “When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.” Some students go home and become couch potatoes; others grow, develop, and become people like Larry Page or Sergey Brin. I chose a path like the latter. From today forward as a new member of an elite group of only 6% of the global population, I accept the role of being a leader of the world. From this day forward I will continue to make big goals, and accomplish goals that have been deemed impossible. I am determined to change the world – for the better – and I hope you will too.
I’d like to thank everybody – family and friends – who have supported me. Whether you have been by my side from the day I was born or after a few days of knowing me, if you are still by my side, you are equally important to me. College, although seen as great fun, is never easy, or hardly doable without supportive, caring, and wise friends. I therefore am very grateful to have met people I call my friends today: supportive professors, mentors, co-workers, children, preachers, and even some strangers. But the friends I’d like to thank most are my best friends- you know who you are. You have stood by me in snow or rain, in sickness or in health, and even from sun rise to sun rise. But to those who are like “broken promises” or not the friends I thought you could have been, I wish you nothing but obtaining better virtues. People come and go, but best friends are hard to come by.
Now as I walk off the sidewalk and into the real world, I will walk with arms wide open. As Anne Frank once said, “Whoever is happy will make other happy too. She who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.”
So for those of you graduating, I congratulate you. For those of you who have graduated, I hope you’re doing great things. And for those of you who will graduate, I wish you good luck.
“The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.”
P.S. Thank you for all the wonderful graduation gifts.
Sincerely,
Cherie.
