Connan Obrien

2019.6.23(일)

 

Your path at 22 / will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

One's dream is constantly evolving, / rising and falling, / changing course.

This happens in every job, / but because I have worked in comedy for 25 years, /  I can probably speak best about my own profession.

 

But the point is this : It is our failure /  to become our perceived ideal/  that ultimately defines us / 

and makes us unique.

It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst

 / for profound re-invention.

 

And I bet, today, most of your would admit that your time here was very different from what you imagined.

Your roommate changed, / your major changed, / for some of you your sexual orientatoin changed.

I bet some of you have changed your sexual orientation since I began this speech.

I know I have.

But through the good / and especially the bad. / the person you are now is someone / you could never have conjured in

the fall of 2007.

 

I have told you many things todya, / most of it foolish / but some of it true.

I'd like to end my address / by breaking a taboo / and quoting myself form 17 months ago.

At the end of my final program with NBC, / just before siging off, /

I said "Work hard, be kind, / and amazing things will happen."

Today, /  receiving this honor / and speaking to the Dartmouth Class of 2011 / from behind a tree-trunk, /

I have never believed that more.

Thank you very much, and congratulations.