Inspiration

I attended two graduation ceremonies (call them convocations if you like) as a graduating student myself, a couple more at one of the Ivy schools when my friends graduated. It always seemed the usual affair, with a lot of smiles floating around, shaking of hands, the key figures repeating the same words, praising the graduating students and the school itself. They were all probably nice affairs. With their own Kodak moments, fleeting memories, special to the individual collecting his/her own degree. But then the moment was gone. And with that, that special feeling of the day ever so special. Not a word of any speech was ever etched in anyone's mind, nor the feeling captured forever. It was all a lovely experience. But gone. All that remains is a certificate as you stretch to remind yourself of why that day was so special.

Never had I imagined a convocation ceremony speech along such lines as shown in the video below. Inspired me from the moment I first came across it. Read the speech and viewed the video many times over the past year or so.

May it inspire many more...Thanks Steve.