There I was giving my commencement Speech to Elementary Graduates. I wanted to say many things yet all I could muster were 5 points which when looking back I should not have said it the way I did. What were the 5 points:
1. Be schooled but more so be educated;
2. Live up to the pact we have made today;
3. Parents: "Pray as though everything depends on you but pray harder as though everything depends on God;
4. Whatever you have become, give it back as a gift and others use it as tool for nation building, and
5. Dream the biggest dream you can muster and work at it.
The points seemed to be the only points that came to my reflection. Yet, this speech did not capture what I wanted to say for the delivery did not turn out the best I could have done. I should have been closer to my audience and tell them from the heart:
To the Graduates: You have graduated. This alone is an achievement in your life. Savor today's success. Hopefully, we will meet each other again, and by then you are graduating from high school. Later perhaps, college. One step at a time guys. One step at a time.
To you parents: You have facilitated today's success of your children or your adopted son/daughter- as a guardian. Savor today's success with your child. Hopefully we will meet each other again and by then your children are graduating from high school. Later perhaps, college. One step at a time Pa and Ma.
To all of us around the graduates, as mentors, relatives or neighbors, let us promote a conducive atmosphere so that our youth can NOT but do good to realize their dreams in life.
To God be the glory for everything that He allowed to happen so that the world which He entrusted to us be a manifestation of His glory.
No wonder even speeches can also cover so much for some of it should not be said and after much thought and after the event, better and deeper foods for thought come along. At least I tried.
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