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For those of you graduating or attending graduation ceremonies you no doubt have heard many speeches crammed with worthwhile advice.
We want to wish all the graduates luck and success in your lives with a measure of happiness thrown in.
As we said before there have been many speeches given at many graduation ceremonies over the years and we want to share one with you that was given in 1975 by author Joan Didion. She delivered the speech at the University of California.
"I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package.
I'm just telling you to live in it.
Not just to endure it,
not just to suffer it,
not just to pass through it,
but to live in it.
To look at it.
To try to get the picture.
To live recklessly.
To take chances.
To make your own work and take pride in it.
To seize the moment.
And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace.
Nor do they sing there,
or write,
or argue,
or see the tidal bore on the Amazon,
or touch their children.
And that's what there is to do and
get it while you can and
good luck at it."