Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Is it true that we are there yet? Have we arrived at our goal? We've been going for 13 long years. We've just had a couple of brief rests en route. We're worn out and we're surly and we simply need to know, would we say we are there yet? Lookingback at our street, we see the various courses we have taken to wind up where we are presently, here, at graduation day. A large portion of us have shown up on schedule. A couple are still on their way, perhaps separated or derailed. We trust they'll come soon. In any case, today isn't our goal or aspiration. It's not our excursion's end. It's a meeting place. A site from which we'll all take off, by and by, on various streets. We may never congress in one spot like this again. Graduation has been our normal concentration for a long time. Is there a typical concentration for the remainder of ourjourney? Can the numerous courses we will pick in our lives ever lead us to a solitary meeting place again? Would we be able to concentrate on a goal or target for which we will all be headed to reach in the years to come? I suspect as much. I concur with Robert Fulghum who expressed, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergar...