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as the production of Iheart radio class of twenty twenty parents faculty rising graduates. Welcome to commencement you made it this year is a little different, a difficult time to gradually, because the traditional graduation day has been put on hold. So we are bringing it to you wherever you are, because this is still your day your moment and now put your hands together. It's time to be inspired this here's commencement speaker the one and only Josh Clock. Dear students,

Congratulations on reaching this point in your life. It's a big deal and you should be proud of yourself now that you ve gotten here I've come to fill you in on a little secret. You ve been told for practically your whole life. Now how special you How singularly important you are, how packed with uniqueness you are, and that is true. You are special and unique and you are important, but your parents and teachers haven't been telling you this. Truth all of your life. They ve only been showing you are part of the bigger picture. Surely you ve noticed tints of this throughout the time that you are in school, like when you got older and suddenly the stories in history class began to get a lot. Her. They told you all those same stories when you were younger. They just arranged the picture without all the pieces, to keep you from truly understanding

And perhaps he resented it when you realize the whole truth had been kept from you, that's understandable. Most of us do feel that way, but don't waste your time stewing on this each generation does it to the next. They think it protects the young when really.

This keeps things as they are. The important thing here is to learn from that experience, because people are going to continue to do this to you, your whole life people try to lay out the pieces of the truth that fit together to make the picture they want you to see its way to get people to do what you want them to an throughout your life. You will get this from all sorts of people, people, your friends with people, you love people on television, people on the internet, people running your government, people running other people's governments, your actions and your thoughts are powerful and influential and people want to sway them. This means that you will have to learn to think for yourself. Do your own research seek out people who are experts on the topic talk to other people?

in this day and age. It's not enough to trust your eyes or your ears. You have to put in work to find the truth. Dont be lazy, find the truth. It's not necessarily what's on the news, it's also not necessarily. What's in some video that says, the news is I always remember this. What for someone is showing you there What only showing you part of the picture, it's up to you to fill in the rest of the pieces that make up the whole truth. And maybe you'll never find it. That's ok, you'll be exhausting to spend your life constantly searching for the truth, constantly paranoid that every person you speak to his manipulating you don't do that. That's not what life is about and people aren't that mean at their core? Most people don't even realise their showing you an incomplete picture annually.

They're not doing it for nefarious purposes when they do. Instead, the vast majority of people are just passing along in income, picture that someone else showed them, this happens a lot. It's a big problem so did keep from dying of exhaustion by age, thirty, all haggard and paranoid and upset do two things. One decide if something is important to you or the world to search out. The missing piece is to find the truth of the matter. Sometimes all it takes is ineffective. Google search taking the time to read a couple of reliable articles, but remember that, even if you do search high and although you may never find the truth about whatever it is you I now understand, so it better be important if you're going to go looking for the truth of the matter in two, if it's not important shrug off. You will never know everything.

You'll, never know most things. Some things will be important enough for you to search for most will not be, but if you decide its, not them and then this is really important. Don't pass along the incomplete picture to others when you do that you are shaping someone else's view of things. They trust you. They know you're a good person with the good of the world heart. So why would you lie throughout your life, people will Listen! What comes out of your mouth so be careful that you believe in what you say, but back to what I was saying before about your parents and teachers, giving you an incomplete sure I hope you understand a little better now that they dont me any harm by it. They might think they were protecting you all these years by keeping ugly truths from you, but those ugly truths, part as they can be to take, are what allow us to grow as people

if you see a beautiful flower, you admire it and are glad that its there. If you see a wee growing, though you pull it, but if people around. You are telling you that the weed you're seeing is actually a flower. Tartu, no otherwise and its even

Did you know that the weeds should be pulled? Remember that your parents in your teachers warrant lying to you, because they wanted to deceive you? Their parents and their teachers showed them pictures of weeds that grow in our world and told them that they were flowers to and their parents, parents and their teachers, teachers told them some weeds. Have been called flowers for so long that, no matter what you say to some people, they will fight you tooth and nail that the weed is a flower, that's their truth and people are deeply protective. What they hold to be true, even when it's not true at all part of the reason, the fight and argue with you when you tell them of flowers. Actually, a weed is just simple laziness. It takes a lot more.

To pull a weed than it does to pretended to flower. But the bigger reason, though argue, is because they don't want to believe they ve been wrong all this time. The thing is no matter how long everyone's call the wheat flour there's some aspects to weed that a flower doesn't have now I'll, always give a weed away like hurting people. If something that people, you know say as a flower harms other people, it's really a weed weeds can hurt people in all kinds of ways. Maybe they give aids to some people, but not to others, maybe they make it so some people have more wealth and power than they could ever possibly use, while other people have so little, they can't barely scrape by other weeds, make it so that when some people, her other people or other life for the planet, they don't get in trouble for, if you suspect, a flower is really we'd, you look at it closely enough you'll see that the people who say it's a flower are the ones who get off.

The benefits from it, and you will also find there's a whole other group of people out there who ve been calling it a we'd all this time. It's just that nobody's listen to them, and sometimes it's even worse than that. Sometimes those people are told that the Rome flowers are weeds. So what does all this have to do with you being special and unique excellent question Actually, that's the whole point of everything. It's not a lie that your special and unique you are both of those things, but not simply because you're you, as you ve, been led to believe all these years. That's an incomplete picture of the whole truth, your special and unique, because you were born a human being. All human beings are special and unique that just as individual but the whole human race every one of us especial every one of us is unique and the same goes

For human beings, but for all living things, life is special and in this way every single and that you will ever meet in your entire life, is valuable and worthwhile as you are, some of these other people, your meat, will disagree with you in some of them may harm you just because a person is unique and special does mean that their good bye. Hard as it can be, to remember sometimes never forget that on the whole human beings are generally good, They generally care about each other generally want. What's best and most just don't forget, Manatee is generally good. It's just that. Sometimes other people don't recognize a flower is really a weed You can find

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