'Even though there might not be pomp because of our circumstances, never has a graduating class been called to step into the future with more purpose and vision, passion and energy and hope,' Oprah Winfrey says, to the graduating class of 2020.
"Let's cut to the chase: This blows. You worked so hard and for so long and you expected it to culminate in some pomp and circumstance, damn it! And rightfully so," Bell said."But let me tell you something I wish I knew when I was younger: You wouldn't remember it anyway. It's not the moments of achievement or recognition that stick with you, it's the getting there. You think Ted Danson remembers what it’s like on the day that he won the Emmy? No.
Activist Malala Yousafzai said she could empathize with graduates' frustration, as she was missing her ceremony too. However, she's looking at the bright side, she added:"I'm hoping that the future will be even better as we become more responsible people."Hugh Jackman, who has battled skin cancer, told graduates to"wear sunscreen." Awkwfina reminded them not to microwave metal.
You know, the word 'graduate' comes from the Latin 'gradus,' which means, 'a step toward something.' And in the early fifteenth century, 'graduation' was a term used in alchemy to mean 'a tempering or refining.' Every one of us is now being called to graduate, to step toward something even though we don't know what.
So can you use this disorder that COVID-19 has wrought? Can you treat it as an uninvited guest that's come into our midst to reorder our way of being? Can you, the class of 2020, show us not how to put the pieces back together again, but how to create a new and more evolved normal? A world more just, kind, beautiful, tender, luminous, creative, whole? We need you to do this, because the pandemic has illuminated the vast systemic inequities that have defined life for too many for too long.
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