Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Charles Bloom Secondary valedictorian Jim Lagerquist’s speech Friday at CBSS graduation ceremonies.
No matter which course in life we take, I hope that we will all be happy, and hopefully we can look back on our decisions and acts and know that we did our best.
Our graduation is not just an end to our high school career, but a magnificent beginning to the rest of our lives…time always continues, it continues into the unknown horizon which exceeds our sight. But it is that horizon, where we strike out into as we approach our final days of high school.
And it is that unknown, where we will make memories, and friends, attempt to leave our mark on the world….The road to success and happiness is long, and down Robert Frost’s “Road less trodden” there are many hurdles and obstacles, but our class had the ability to overcome all of these to eventually look back, and know that all the feats we have accomplished and decisions we have made were for the best.
To my fellow graduates, I say this, “it is not only what you achieve that counts, but what you become as well.”
