I know you may not feel like it, but you are indeed the chosen class for such a time as this-the class of 2020.
You're also a united class, the pandemic class that has the entire world striving to graduate with you.
Of course, this is not the graduation ceremony you envishoned. You've been dreaming about that walk across the stage, your family and friends cheering you on. The caps flung joyously in the air.
But even though there may not be pomp because of our circumstances, never has a graduating class been called to step into the future with more purpose, vision, passion, and energy and hope.
You know, the word graduate comes from the Latin gradus, meaning a step toward something.
Every one of us is now being called to graduate to step toward someting, even though we don't know what.
I wish I could tell you I know the path forward. I don't. There is so much uncertainty. In truth, there always has been.
What I do know is that the same guts and imagination that got you to this moment--all those things are the very things that are going to sustain you through whatever is coming.
It's vital that you learn, and we all learn, to be at peace with with discomfort of stepping into the unknown.
It's really okay to not have all the answers. The answers will come for sure, if you can accept not knowing long enough to get stilla nd stay still long enough for new thoughts to take root in your more quiet,deeper, truer self.
The noise of the world drowns out the sound of you. You have to get still to listen.
So can you use this disorder that Govid has wrought?
Can you treat it as an uninvited guest that's come into our midst to reorder our way of being?
Can you, the class of 2020,show us not how to put the pieces back together again, but how to creat a new and more evolved normal, a world more just, kind, beautiful, tender, luminous,creative, whole?
We need you to do this, because the pandemic has illuminated the vast systemic inequities that have defined life for too many for too long.
You ahve the power to stand for, to fight for, and vote for healthier conditions that will create a healthier society.
This moment is your invitation to use your education to begin to heal our afflictions by applying the best of what you've learned in your head, and felt in your heart.
For me, it's always been talking and sharing stories. For you, well, that's for you to discover.
And my hope is that you will harness your education, your creativity and your valor,your voice, your vote, reflecting on all that you've witnessed and hungered for, all that you know to be true, and use it to create more equity, more justice and more joy in the world.
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