The last words of a desperate man

    Doors frontman, Jim Morrison, once wrote, “This is the end, beautiful friend, the end.”  Say it ain’t so!  Or say, thank God that it’s over.  Our futures have now been etched in stone if you are indeed one of the few, the proud, the graduating class of 2007.  But is it over?  You will go to your commencement ceremony and listen to a long-winded, overly-pompous guest speaker try to talk you through what your future is going to entail.  But in all actuality, the speaker hasn’t a clue as to what your life is like, nor does this person know what you have gone through.  Sure, you share many of the same experiences as your comrades that have also come and gone from the hallowed halls of Georgia College & State University, but your experience is unique to you.  Only you did all of those things that you did, and only you were there to see every single one of them.  Your family has no clue. Your friends only saw a fraction of it.  Your significant other probably has a clue, but is still a long way from being able to fully share in this unique journey called college.
    In lieu of a quite boring diatribe about what your future will be like, or reflecting on the past, I will tell you about the present.  What is the present?  Is the present the very moment that you read this word?  Or this word?  How about this one?  The present is a large number of students who are about to no longer be students.  The present is a world superpower at war, a planet being robbed of its precious resources and a host of other problems that our generation faces on a regular basis.  The present is a culmination of all of the past, good and bad, snowballed into one moment in the continuum of history.  Everything that has been added to this snowball will remain in there until the end of time, whenever that is.  And those things that are added today, by me and you, and by our leaders, our ministers, bankers, criminals and heroes will make that metaphorical snowball so large that one day, it will be too heavy to carry its own weight and the earth will die.
    Whether it be by global warming, a nuclear attack by a rogue state, an outbreak of some rare disease, a meteor, or by televangelism, the world will be destroyed.  In other words, what you do today, and what you did yesterday, directly affects the future of the planet.  I leave it to you, Georgia College graduates, to fix today so that the world will live another day!  This includes fixing Iraq, helping your fellow man, not being greedy or intolerant and living by some code of ethics.  If you do not heed my words, and you do nothing, you are responsible for planting the seeds of destruction.  So go out and be productive, and have a nice life!  Georgia College & State University, in the words of the Jesus of Nazareth, “It is finished”!  And in the words of the great philosopher, Marx, “I have nothing but respect for you, and not much of that”.

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