Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

After four years, we are ultimately gathered on the steps of what we thought wed never come to. We are graduating, finally shedding the familiar and embarking on a world of whats-next? Despite that, though, today is perhaps most importantly a day to remember our past. In the undefiled childhood of memories that each of us has accumulated, beginning roughly when we were still young enough to believe braces are cool, some of the most vivid and authoritative are from this campus. The high school years are mainly those in which a person leaves off building their lives around what they have been shown, and begins to select the grade they will take for themselves. It is fair to say that these last four years have seen immense changes in each and every one of us. And today is alike a day to...