"Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck
and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I’ll tell you
why. From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated
unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope
that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance
of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to
time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck,
again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of
chance in life and understand that your success is not completely
deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved
either. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every
now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way
for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be
ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope
you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. Whether I wish these
things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from
them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your
misfortunes."
– Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts
(CavemanCircus.com)
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