【正文】 to be the worst day ever for you. But don’t be an asshole.
　　Here’s the thing. Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I e from a middleclassfamily, my parents are academics, I was born after the civil rights movement, I was a toddlerduring the women’s movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I’mallowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice, and my uterus。Self, I want to write TV.amp。Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I’m serious.
　　You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don’thave a job? Get one. Any job. Don’t sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who areyou? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.
　　I did not dream of being a TV writer. Never, not once when I was here in the hallowed halls ofthe Ivy League, did I say to myself, amp。I wish I could travel.amp。
　　And they dream of it. The buttonedup ones meet for cocktails and they brag about theirdreams, and the hippie ones have vision boards and they meditate about their dreams. Maybeyou write in journals about your dreams or discuss it endlessly with your best friend or yourgirlfriend or your mother. And it feels really good. You’re talking about it, and you’re planningit. Kind of. You are blueskying your life. And that is what everyone says you should be ? I mean, that’s what Oprah and Bill Gates did to get successful, right?
　　No.
　　Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do note true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hardwork that creates change.
　　So, Lesson One, I guess is: Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer. Maybe you knowexactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you’re paralyzed because you have no idea whatyour passion is. The truth is, it doesn’t matter. You don’t have to know. You just have to keepmoving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, stayingopen to trying something new. It doesn’t have to fit your vision of the perfect job or the perfectlife. Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just ... do. So you think, amp。I wish I could travel around the world.amp。 amp。I want to be a writer.amp。
　　amp。I wish.amp。 or amp。I want to be ...amp。 like five times already anyway ... things are getting real up inhere.
　　OK, wait. Before I talk to you. I want to talk to your parents. Because the other thing about itbeing 20 years later is that I’m a mother now. So I know some things, some very differentthings. I have three girls. I’ve been to the show. You don’t know what that means, but yourparents do. You think this day is all about you. But your parents ... the people who raised you... the people who endured you ... they potty trained you, they taught you to read, theysurvived you as a teenager, they have suffered 21 years and not once did they kill you. This day... you call it your graduation day. But this day is not about you. This is their day. This is theday they take back their lives, this is the day they earn their freedom. This day is theirIndependence Day. So, parents, I salute you. And as I have an eightmonthold, I hope to joinyour ranks of freedom in 20 years!
　　OK. So here es the real deal part of the speech, or you might call it, Some Random StuffSome Random Alum Who Runs a TV Show Thinks I Should Know Before I Graduate:
　　You ready?
　　When people give these kinds of speeches, they usually tell you all kinds of wise and heartfeltthings. They have wisdom to impart. They have lessons to share. They tell you: Follow yourdreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice andmake it sing. Embrace failure. Dream. Dream and dream big. As a matter of fact, dream anddon’t stop dreaming until all of your dreams e true.
　　I think that’s crap.
　　I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, thereally successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.
　　The dreamers. They stare at the sky and they make plans and they hope and they talk about itendlessly. And they start a lot of sentences with amp。poopamp。萊梅斯在達(dá)特茅斯學(xué)院畢業(yè)典禮英語演講稿　　President Hanlon, faculty, staff, honored guests, parents, students, families and friends—good m