“What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.”

Meaning

This reads as a small defense of public reflection. It suggests that a graduation speech is not just ceremony, but a rare chance to gather experience, shape it into meaning, and offer it on to someone else who is about to begin. It lands at the edge of a big transition, when advice feels welcome because it comes wrapped in lived experience.

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Originally said in English.

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