Chapter 640: Graduation Speech
It is always said that graduation is far away, but in the blink of an eye, they go their separate ways.
Because of the parting, the air is filled with sadness;
Because of nostalgia, there is reluctance in his eyes;
Because of the beauty, cherish the memories of the past in your heart!
On June 27, 2007, the graduation ceremony of Imperial Park Polytechnic University was held in the gymnasium as scheduled.
After the leaders at all levels spoke for more than an hour, Jiang Hui, as a representative of the outstanding graduates, took the stage.
"I am honored to be able to speak here today as a representative of the graduates, and thank the school and college for their trust and support to me......", just came to the stage, and said some thanksgiving scenes, this Jiang Hui has already played the three-step formula of the speech very slippery.
"Time is like an arrow, time is like a shuttle, and the four years of beautiful and difficult college life are like sand and gravel in a funnel that has quietly flowed into yesterday", Jiang Hui began his graduation speech after saying his words of thanks.
"At this time, standing at the end of the long road to study, we must all be full of excitement and thoughts. The bits and pieces of the past, all over the place, jumped up, vividly in my mind", needless to say, the review part of the speech routine came.
"At this time, facing my dear classmates and facing the beautiful campus, although I have a thousand words in my heart, it is difficult to ...... words."
"I once saw a saying: If you live every day as if it were your last, one day you will find that you are right."
"The world is changing fast, and we're about to graduate from college, but that doesn't mean our studies are over. The beauty of learning is that others don't take knowledge away from you."
"So the first point I want to make today is about learning, and in many cases, graduating from college means that learning is just beginning. The world will teach you a lot."
"I think the world, this earth, is like a school and a classroom for our lives. Sometimes these courses can be detours and obstacles, and sometimes they are full of crises. I think the secret to coping with all of this is to be as brave as we are to university courses......."
In his speech some time ago, Jiang Hui said things related to the house caused a fierce discussion on the Internet, although Jiang Hui was not afraid of this kind of discussion, but he was too lazy to toss this kind of thing all day long.
Therefore, Jiang Hui basically said that the theme of "chicken soup" was basically in this speech.
Later generations of scholars have specialized in the study of chicken soup related topics, what 'water drops wear stones, not because of strength, but because of persistence', analysis believes that people who like this kind of chicken soup literature generally have poor reflexes, low cognitive ability, are more receptive to religious, supernatural or conspiracy theories, and are more addicted to complementary and alternative medicine.
However, Jiang Hui's "Chicken Soup Text" will definitely not be a few words without connotation while moaning without illness, but will add some dry goods to it.
"The second point I want to make today is about effort. I've always believed that effort is important, but direction is even more important. Many people work very hard after work, work hard, go out early and return late, and don't forget to sign up for a training class on weekends, or even go back to work to study for a graduate school."
"All these efforts are for: early promotion and salary increase, monthly income of 100,000 yuan, buying a school district house, and even financial freedom. However, the cruel truth is that these methods can hardly make you achieve your goal of earning 100,000 a month, let alone financial freedom."
"It is self-evident that hard work creates value, however, labor does not participate well in the distribution of value. I hope that after graduation, you will consider capital investment in addition to your work in the industry."
"Whether you admit it or not, after graduation, most people will be ordinary people. You won't buy a lottery ticket and win 5 million, you won't become Bill Gates or Li Ka-shing, you won't fall off a plane, very few of you will succeed in starting a business, and you won't marry a big star, or marry Andy Lau."
"In life and career, ordinary people tend to be cautious, cautious in living and trying new things, afraid of failure after trying."
"It is precisely because most people have chosen the low-risk, safe and secure path that most people are also in a highly competitive labor market environment, and competition can wipe out all kinds of premiums. These premiums include academic qualifications, looks, time commitment, etc."
"That's why countless elite students can only live the life of ordinary people. In addition to enjoying the sense of superiority brought by looks in school, most good-looking people will quickly return to dust after graduation."
"So I want to say that the direction of efforts is very important, which direction is right? You can go to the Internet to learn about the flowers I said before, and try to believe it."
"I think people don't usually do things that you don't believe in your heart, and sometimes you know that something is good, but you don't do it because you don't think that way from the bottom of your heart.
For example, reading and sleeping, from the bottom of your heart, you must feel more comfortable sleeping, so you will throw the book aside.
It doesn't matter what you say on your lips, the body is often the most honest."
"The third point I'm going to make today is about failure. Most of us like to hear success stories, and we all want to be successful, don't we? But we have to ask ourselves, what is success? This is a question that you have to keep asking yourself. Because your answers will change over time.
However, we must be soberly aware that no one's life is smooth sailing.
We all have difficulties and setbacks.
If things go wrong and you hit a dead end, that's exactly what life is telling you ...... it's time to change."
"So, whenever I have a hard time and a crisis, I ask what it has taught me, and as long as you learn your lesson, you will keep going.
If you really learn your lesson, you will pass the test without having to suffer failure.
If you don't learn your lesson, it will show up to you in another form and give you some remedy ......".
"The greatest pain of man is often to know too much and do too little. I know 10,000 ways to be financially free, but I have never stepped out of an acre and a third of an acre that I am comfortable with, and I am very anxious and hesitant about it.
What is this called? This is called self-deception, or self-inflicted blame."
"Either you know a little less and live your life like a fool, which is also very happy."
"Either you know a lot and do what you can to do it, act like a madman, and turn what you know and want into reality."
"Don't be a hypocrisy caught in the middle, their innocent moans, no one pays attention.
This concludes my speech, thank you for listening, and wish you all a bright future."
Jiang Hui stepped down after speaking, and he was greeted with thunderous applause.
Jiang Hui's words touched the students in the audience a lot, as for the effect, how many people really do what Jiang Hui said, it depends on the fate of each person.
(End of chapter)