GRADUATION CEREMONY.

OBEY.
- Son,
I said.
- There's a graduation today. I want you to bring your squirt gun.

- Okay.
he said.

- Thank you for obeying,
I said.

A DOLLAR FOR EVERY TIME YOU HEAR ONE OF THESE WORDS OR PHRASES DURING GRADUATION...*
- excellence
- future 
- potential 
- change 
- world 
- strive 
- believe
- courage
- conquer
- fight
- determined 
- dream
- hope
- faith
- passion
- no longer 
- we have watched
- for many of us/you
- it's our turn/your turn

Feel free to add other standbys below. Those words and phrases that you know will unquestionably, absolutely be present in every graduation ceremony this side of David Foster Wallace. Take the world! Be the future! Be all you can be! Carpe diem! 

What's your tally? Can you hit a hundred?

*no, not from me. you can treat yourself to one. put it into your motorcycle fund. or, I have a PayPal account.