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Who is to say that we are not the products of the future? So many people believe that we aren’t much more than our past experiences walking on two legs, and my personal experience leads me to conclude that this simply can’t be right. I’ve had the opportunity to expend four years of my life with some of the most driven people I’ve ever met, and I can say with unhesitant certainty that our class’s interminable focus on the future begs this aforementioned question. This isn’t to say that we are simply untethered dreamers, gasping in the upper atmosphere, but rather that we are simply striving to soar where many others dare not venture: into that undiscovered country always milliseconds above of us. I’ve seen so many of us independently pursue life-long careers, years before many others would stumble into that plutocratic minimum wage trap. Whether it be pursuing something more that just a hobby, spreading confidence across California, or dedicating portions of one’s time and very soul to what they believe in, we work for something more for just ourselves, in our time. We strive to create and maintain the necessities for the world in which everyone will re-enter each day, each minute, each blink. While we’ve learned from our past, especially the amazing four years we’ve spent together, we are still more than our pasts bundled together into cells and goop. We are beings living for a better tomorrow today. We are shaped by our tenacious goals and our indomitable will, and that is how we will be remembered in that future for which we dedicate ourselves. By now you might be expecting my personal goodbye, but I don’t really wish to say goodbye, as it’s something I’ve always struggled with and something we all are already going to hear enough of. So I say to you all, let us not go so quietly into these bright days of ours. Let them shape us, let them macerate our pride in lesson, and let them construct us in accomplishment, and in turn, we will shape them, macerate them, and construct them for something more than ourselves, as we have for the dawn we’ve trudged through. Good morning to you all. |
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