to
high
school
graduates:
I want you to know that even though your
world will soon expand, and your responsibilities will grow,
and your friends may drift apart — you will be okay. You
will be okay because each day the Earth will spin as it always
has. Though now and then you may feel overwhelmed, your options
will be numberless and each turn may feel like a terrible
mistake, there will also be the days where you are allowed to
sleep in, eat breakfast foods at midday and stay up late into
the night watching Supernatural reruns. And you will learn that
there is a beautiful intimacy to sharing your company with the
ones who really matter, the ones who don't let you drift
apart, the ones who fasten themselves to you like ships to
anchors and scream to the wind, “We will face the
storm that is life,
together.”