a graduation piece

Hold up
Hold on
Dont be scared
You'll never change what's been and gone

May your smile (may your smile)
Shine on (shine on)
Dont be scared (dont be scared)
Your destiny may keep you warm

Cos all of the stars
Are fading away
Just try not to worry
Youll see them some day
Take what you need
And be on your way
And stop crying your heart out

Get up (get up)
Come on (come on)
Why are you scared? (Im not scared)
You'll never change
Whats been and gone

Cos all of the stars
Are fading away
Just try not to worry
Youll see them some day
Take what you need
And be on your way
And stop crying your heart out

Were all of us stars
Were fading away
Just try not to worry
Youll see us some day

Just take what you need
And be on your way
And stop crying your heart out
Stop crying your heart out
Stop crying your heart out

...Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Oasis

this is the end and also the beginning and along with it accompanies a sense of joy, fear, hesitation, uncertainty, hope. i pray that we have hope.

nobody can tell us for sure that we will know our way, we will find our way or that we will get there. nobody can tell us for sure that a dream job can live up to expectation or the risk or opportunity is worth it. but i pray that we have hope.

take the hope that you have and be on your way. i pray that you have hope.

i hope this speaks to you in the same way it has for me..

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

...Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.