They informed me that I should speech for my son’s school’s
“graduation” ceremony to high school.What a world! In Whole education time, I just had one graduation ceremony, and
that was graduation from University, which they forced the university to have
it. But nowadays for moving to every new grade they have a ceremony.
They informed me when I only had an hour to get ready, my
son’s grade has 128 students and I must've talked to this many students and of
course their parents. I've learned to take hours for writing one minute of the
speech’s transcript, but I couldn't use that and I had to improvise. to get set for the speech, I thought of the speech’s of others in such
ceremonies, for example: Steve jobs’ speech in Stanford university has been
famous.
I remembered Kurt Vonnegut’s conference for” Ladies and
gentlemen of the class of ’1998”, which anyone will enjoy reading or listening to
it. The time they’d translated it, it had been very famous and everyone thought
it was real, but later I understood like George Washington’s axe, it was a
beautiful but fictional story.
After a lot of problems, I made up a speech and spoke in the ceremony, but Vonnegut's conference was very interesting to me.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American novelist from a wealthy German family whom his books had been translated in my country.He was an educated man whom the Nazi force took him as a prisoner in the WWII (World War 2).the adventures while he was a prisoner, was the plot of most of stories. Books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" or Cat's Cradle " or " A Man Without a countrt"
with a little search, I found his conference's transcript. you'll enjoy reading it :
Ladies and gentlemen of the class Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by science, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
After a lot of problems, I made up a speech and spoke in the ceremony, but Vonnegut's conference was very interesting to me.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American novelist from a wealthy German family whom his books had been translated in my country.He was an educated man whom the Nazi force took him as a prisoner in the WWII (World War 2).the adventures while he was a prisoner, was the plot of most of stories. Books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" or Cat's Cradle " or " A Man Without a countrt"
with a little search, I found his conference's transcript. you'll enjoy reading it :
Ladies and gentlemen of the class Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by science, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
- Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never
mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.
- But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of
yourself and recall, in a way you can’t grasp now, how much possibility lay
before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
- Don’t worry about the future. Worrying is as effective as
trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
- The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never cross your worried mind — the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
- The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never cross your worried mind — the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
- Do one thing every day that scares you.
- Sing.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up
with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
- Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re
ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only
with yourself.
- Remember compliments you receive. Forget the
insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
- Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank
statements.
- Stretch.
- Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with
your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted
to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still
don’t.
- Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees.
You’ll miss them when they’re gone.
- Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have
children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the
funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or
berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are
everybody else’s.
- Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t
be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest
instrument you’ll ever own.
- Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living
room.
- Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
- Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you
feel ugly.
- Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll
be gone for good.
- Be nice to your siblings. They’re your best link to
your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
- Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few
you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because
the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were
young.
- Travel.
- Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will
rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And
when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable,
politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect
your elders.
- Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you
have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse. But you
never know when either one might run out.
- Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time you’re 40,
it will look 85.
- Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those
who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way
of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly
parts, and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
- But trust me on the sunscreen.
Kurt Vonnegut
