I'm here to say congratulations.
Congratulations to you chosen ones.
And I am calling you the chosen ones
because you have
been chosen in many ways.
First by the temperament and discipline
you've
you've lived by by the creative fires
that are inside of you. And the
instinctive lunges
of your desires. There is something about
you all of you
in your upbringing and your background
in your conscious memories and your
ongoing mysteries. Something that has
driven you to complete your
courses and achieve your selected
challenges and cross the rubicon
of your time there your studies at
Wright State.
You succeeded because of the aid and the
love of others
that are in your lives without a doubt.
But
you have succeeded mostly because you
and you alone
chose to do so. You are the chosen ones.
You are the chosen ones because of the
faith unimated when you began your Wright
State adventures you started in the
olden times
and the world back before the great
pandemic of 2020.
You will talk of those earlier years in
your lives just that way well that was
back before
the COVID-19. That was before
the great pandemic. Part of your lives
will forever be identified as
before in the same way other generations
tell time
like well that was before the war or
that was before the internet
or that was before Beyonce. The word
before
is going to carry great weight with you.
Today you mark your graduation which has
come
during during the restructuring
of time and of science of our own
national will
and of a worldwide commonwealth.
You have finished Wright State during
the great reset
the great reboot. You've gone from
student to graduate when more has been
expected
of you than to just be an american you
have had to be responsible Americans
you've had to be good
Americans. Good Americans who made the
sacrifices that have saved
lives. Now you'll reference these past
weeks
as for however many weeks there are yet
to come
as during the pandemic during the COVID-19.
During the lockdown the quarantine
during the shelter
in place. Sometime
if we all remain good Americans
you will continue on into the after.
As in that was after the virus was tamed.
After we were safe to go out again. After
we took up our probable lives once more.
But your after is not going to look the
same as your during
or as your before you will have seen the
movie and you will know how it ends.
You will be enlightened in ways your
degree from Wright State never held
in promise. You will have made it through
the time of great sacrifice
and great need and no one will be more
fresh to the task of restarting our
measure of normalcy
than you. You chosen ones.
You have not returned to the starting
line like all of
us generations before you you're just
approaching it now for the first time.
You've just arrived. You are chosen in
that way
to enter into the competition of life
just when so many have had to recover
and refresh and restart
and reawaken and to retake up the hard
work and the unshirkable
responsibilities
of making the world not only our own
but of your own.
Every class of every year moves up into
the rotation and proves their value
by living their values but this class
your class
isn't just doing work that has to be
done you're joining in
the work that has to be done. You chosen
ones are going to form the new
structures and to find the new realities
and make the new world the world after
all that we have been through and after
your time
here in the final years the final weeks
at Wright State. And the future is always
uncertain but we who celebrate
what you have done who celebrate all of
your achievements
we are certain of one thing on this day
you will not let us down. Thank you.
Congratulations. Way to go.
