“all your families, friends, and teachers, to celebrate not only your achievements of this past year, Beecher middle schoolers—
but your endless possibilities.
“When you reflect on this past year, I want you all to look at where you are now and where you’ve been.
You’ve all gotten a little taller, a little stronger, a little smarter... I hope.” Here some people in the audience chuckled.
But the best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track,
or even your grade point average—though those things are important, to be sure.
It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year.
That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
“There’s a wonderful line in a book by J. M. Barrie—and no, it’s not Peter Pan, and I’m not going to ask you to clap if you believe in fairies...”
Here everyone laughed again. “But in another book by J. M. Barrie called The Little White Bird... he writes...”
He started flipping through a small book on the podium until he found the page he was looking for, and then he put on his reading glasses.
“‘Shall we make a new rule of life... always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?’”
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