STUDENT SPEECHES AT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS ARE SOMEWHAT PREDICTABLE. MONDAY NIGHT WAS NO EXCEPTION.
"THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED THEM FROM THE BABY DOCTOR WHO DELIVERED THEM TO THE JAINTOR WHO KEPT QUIET ABOUT WHAT HE FOUND IN THEIR OPEN LOCKER!"
BUT TONIGHT WAS DIFFERENT IN THAT EACH OF THE TWO YOUNG WOMEN WHO SPOKE HAD A NUGGET OR TWO WORTH REMEMBERING:
1. ONE SAID, "NOW IT IS OUR TURN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE." (I thought to myself: Praise The Lord that someone has the courage to try and straighten this whole mess out---my generation has really botched the job!)
2. THE OTHER EXPLAINED WHY HER MOTHER ALWAYS TOLD HER TO ACT LIKE A "DUCK": "CALM ON THE SURFACE, BUT PEDDLING LIKE CRAZY BELOW THE OBSERVED WATERLINE!" ( I had heard this barnyard philosophy before; however, just about all of our current elected leaders (some preachers included) are more interested in telling, and showing, how much effort they are expending. Maybe one of the 280 grads will change the world and not care who gets the credit! They will never ask for my vote or want to hold my wallet! In fact, they will make the invisible man look like a showoff!)
I AM SO VERY HAPPY NO ONE TOLD ME WHEN I WAS 17 HOW INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT LIFE WOULD BECOME AFTER THE TASSEL WAS MOVED!
IF THEY HAD, I MIGHT HAVE SAID, "I AIN'T GOING!"
GLENN <><
I GUESS YOU HAD TO DO IT ---KNOWING I WOULD RECALL OUR OWN GRADUATION! THE ONLY THING I REMEMBER FROM OUR GRADUATION IS FINALLY GETTING AWAY FROM YOU AND YOUR LAME BRAINED DAY DREAMS! LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE STILL DAY DREAMING!
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