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仲夏 ，是繁花盛放的季節 ，也是畢業的季節。 早前經過多大校園 ， 正好看到大群滿臉陽光自信，手拿證書身披黒袍的年輕人 ，興高采烈地與親友在古舊的大学校樓前拍照擁抱 ，這場景讓我想起當年的自己 …
畢業禮 ，總少不了嘉賓们的 Commencement Address ，大部份不外是前程錦繡鵬程萬里等公式講辭 ，
都說現今的年輕人吃不得苦 ，受不了挫折，
" … No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because DEATH IS VERY LIKELY THE SINGLE BEST INVENTION OF LIFE. IT IS LIFE'S CHANGE AGENT. IT CLEARS OUT THE OLD TO MAKE WAY FOR THE NEW …
" Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma ~ which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out ur own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow ur heart and intuition … "
或許你無法認同他底 " 死亡是人世中最佳的發明 "那論調 ， 但世界可是實實在在地分秒都在汰舊換新，今天再新再鮮的你，
成名前，先後被失業、破產、失婚三個水窪濺得一身淤泥的 J.K. Rowling 也曾在一個畢業禮上致辭説 ： “ Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged … so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ”
不錯 , 失敗最叫人「欣喜」的好處 , 就如 Detox 一樣 , 清掉你生命中不重要的東西及毒素 ~ 是的， 包括身邊的人 ….
成功，
說我自鳴清高也好酸葡萄也罷 ，事實上 ，一般人眼中的所謂成功 ，
是的 ，我一直堅信當一個人從人生「