TODAY'S
SMILE TRIGGER: A Mini Commencement Address to the University of Hard Knocks
Class 2014 by Mme. YO DETTE, Chancellor, DA-DA-Versity, Mississauga, Ont.
Canada, Fifth Line Campus.(Via Spyke, Cloud Nine Satellite)
"My
dear Grads of HKC 2014, and all your invited and uninvited guests: Thank you
for inviting me as your Commencement Speaker. But what can I say? This is a
quick satellite feed. So, hear this. (Here goes. Beam me on.)
“Friends:
Make your own mistakes, but learn from the lessons they invariably reveal to
you. Look for your happiness. “Feast on yourself”
so says my poet friend Derek Walcott. You are the man or woman on the mirror.
Make sure, though, that you have the equipment and the necessary learning to
get to your goal without harming anyone on your journey to get there. Those
behind you are doing their darndest best to climb up the ladder just as you did
or are still doing. Don't step on their fingers or hands. Pull them up when
they falter. They might learn to catch you when you miss a step yourself. Weren’t
the Ten Commandments a Commencement Message? So asks Brodsky in his great
commencement address eons ago. Yes, of course. Marching orders they were to the
Chosen People. (Where are they now, by the way?
At war? Pity.)
The Golden Rule, likewise, is normally your
commencement thought when you step out of your shelters to work and achieve in
a civilised world. Yes, "Do unto others what you would like others do unto
you"; love begets love. But mark well: Do not do unto others what you
would not like others do unto you. They will.
“Thank
you for listening or not.
Good Day.”
(Poster
flash: Applaud. Please. Pretty Please? :(
)
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