If you are of a certain age--say, older than 25--you have heard more than your share of graduation speeches. Here's one I just found from Tufts University. "Today" co-host Meredith Vieira, a 1975 Tufts graduate, offers this poignant, funny, serious and reflective commencement speech about her career and some lessons learned along the way.
The main point? (In case you don't want to read all of it). Listen to your voice. "Let your life speak," as writer/educator Parker Palmer says. Easier said than done, but worth a shot. If you're like me, you have a gazillion voices a day telling you who you should be and what you should do.
The gazillion voices (some with more more weight than others) should be taken into consideration. It's not a solitary road, this life; yet you are the only one who can, and has the right, to walk in your shoes. Shakespeare said: To thine own self be true.
Thoughts? Rebuttals?
2 comments:
how many voices do you hear in your head, you crazy woman?
Thousands upon thousands. Then some more if the phone rings.
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