Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Life, it is of ten said, is the greatest mystery. How many times end-to-end our lives do we pause and ask ourselves Why argon we here? What is our intent? Or some other infinitely ponderous question. Here and now, as we stand teetering upon a great threshold welcoming us into a whole new realm of independence, is no exception.Tonight the many mysteries of career hang over us, but instead of casting a shadow, they are illuminating our world and setting a glow in our eye and in our hearts. If you think there is no mystery around you now, I invite you to ask yourself How did we get here? Can you recall the specifics? When we were profuse of hope, who shared in our elation? What will we do now? For some, the respond to that last question is simple. Some of us are looking frontwards to work or furthering our education and others are looking no farther than this summer or even later tonight. But what about ten years from now? Twenty? All that we do now at present affects every comi ng second, just as all that we have through in the past has brought us to this point.Along the way there has been roc...