From the opening minutes of David Foster Wallace's 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech, in which he questions commencement speech conventions, it's clear that Wallace has some serious wisdom to share. The crux of his speech: Many of us are oblivious to our own close-mindedness. We picture ourselves as the centers of our own, individual universes, instead of seeing the bigger, more interconnected picture.
Four years has passed, my reality was to bring you inspiration and stories that has caught my eye over the years, that became reality and today we celebrate by sharing some stories that made history. From the humble beginning of 391 views in the first week up to 6,991 (in the last month), I thank you personally for your support and thank you to the contributions from people such as Melissa Wolf, Rick Waid to name a couple there. I am pleased to be sharing with a wise word or two.If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important, if you want to operate on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you'll know you have other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer hell-type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred -- on fire with the same force that lit the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down."
From 1:30pm (English time) today I will be reliving those memories.