Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

The old poet Kahlil Gibran, a long time ago, once said, You work that you may keep pace with the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of lifes procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission toward the infinite. An interesting thought, that we work in pose to keep pace with the earth. Now, Im sure youre asking yourself, how can my near minimum wage job, where the customers treat me like a doormat and I still wear to be pleasant and chipper, keep me in sync with the soul of the earth. Well I imagine there are higher rewards to part-time high take aim jobs, but other than the always too small pay checks, I am hard pressed to fathom them. Yet, that is not the kind of work I am speaking of. And then there is school work. Yes of course there are obvious rewards, such as these diplomas we are about to receive, to putting in a lot of time, energy and hard work into our studies. However, today I am here to talk about another aspect of work. It is work that galore(postnominal) of us have been involved in one way or another either in sch...