graduation speech

today steph brought up graduation speeches. what did i learn at diamond bar high school? you can cheat and succeed; in fact, the best usually do. you can ditch school, party on weekends, and do some of the homework - and still fill the staff that you're perfect. you can work hard as hell, therefore putting your integrity on the line, and have it wasted away in a single moment: all because you wanted to be honest. and if i had to give a graduation speech, i would love to, absolutely love to, i wonder what i would write about. something inspirational. but something different. so i went looking for a good speech. looking. looking. looking.

When i was a kid i wanted to be an astronaut. to be einstein. to be a hero that saved the world from evil aliens. and I'm sure many of you felt the same. and then we found out astronauts never got dizzy, and we did, that the world doesn't need saving from evil aliens, that Einstein actually read a lot of books. Reality hit us. And looking back now, what childish dreams we had. Childish.
where did those dreams go? And the more i ask that question, the more sure i am of the answer. those dreams remain, and it is we have gone.
And so tonight before me, you all sit, a sea of purple gowns doused in mediocrity. We are just another average class, of excellence that this school spits out every year. By our lofty standards, we are just another class. And i stand here, angry and confused.

I don't know everyone in my class, but i know quite a few, and they know me. I know extraordinary people. People whose story belong in newspapers, whose name belongs on an eternal medal. And yet here we are, a mediocre class.

And we are much more than that. We are an extraordinary people whose dreams have been tied down by the illusion of reality.We are an extraordinary people whose only setback is the very limitations we have cast upon ourselves. The words "I can't" ring too often, the words "I will" not enough. And so we are an extraordianry people, caged by mediocre dreams, abandoning our childish dreams.

Why can't we be the next einsteins?

and then i got tired of ranting and being unreasonable.