Saturday, May 26, 2007

Vrai

Life is beautiful. I have to go listen to boring speakers talk about how this new batch of lawyers is going to do good for society. graduation speeches suck. no matter how compelling the speaker is, inevitably they will make the fatal speech mistake. They will over-compliment the graduates. Tell them they all will have jobs at fancy firms with fancy billing requirements. This is the point where our BS meters hit the red zone and apathy becomes the drug of choice among the students. Pan into the sea of graduates, most looking like haggard, on the clearance rack, older versions of themselves. Wiser? Maybe. But you didnt need the last few years to teach you that all you needed to start a greath path for yourself was some persistence. So many have given up, destined to become grinders chipping away at their soul everday. The pieces broken off never grow back. Time renders everything moot at some point but it would be nice to do this thing the right way the first time. A way to make each and every day the best in can be, in ways that will impact the things that matter; the people around you. Get off your ass and make life great.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should have given this as the speech. It is better than anything I have heard at my 3 graduations.

Anonymous said...

Alex,
CHEER UP!
-d.
p.s. and congrats!

alex_slander the gr8 said...

D,
Im in a great mood. Hope you are doing well too. And congrats to you. How nice does that diploma look?

Anonymous said...

If it were easy, everyone would do it.

Think about it!

Anonymous said...

Congrats to you!! Best of luck to you and enjoy your new Diploma!!

-Aubrey