这事儿,从12年前说起。2005年,罗伯茨被小布什提名为首席大法官,直播期间宣布提名时,罗伯茨时年4岁的小儿子杰克突然跳出来砸场子,在镜头前手舞足蹈,嗨到忘形。
小布什和罗伯茨强作镇定,装作什么也没发生,还是简妮冲上去把儿子揽到身后
第二天,“跳舞”视频传遍全美,大家纷纷猜测这是霹雳舞还是什么新奇舞步。
《美国邮报》调侃说:“小伙子,干嘛这么兴奋?你爹还没得到这份工作呢!”后来,还是成功出任首席大法官的老爸揭秘:“他跳得不是舞蹈,只是在模仿蜘蛛侠用手‘嗖嗖嗖’发射蜘蛛网罢了。”
12年过去了,少年“蜘蛛侠”即将从位于新罕布什尔州的卡迪根山中学(Cardigan Mountain School)毕业。毕业典礼请来首席大法官罗伯茨致辞。
美国当地时间7月3日,《华盛顿邮报》放出了一个约翰·罗伯茨在卡迪根山中学(Cardigan Mountain School)的毕业演讲视频,迅速引发关注,《泰晤士报》等随后也进行了报道。
不同于普通的致辞者,罗伯茨对于孩子们的未来,却发出了让人大跌眼镜的祝福和建议。
他觉得,历来的嘉宾们在毕业典礼上说都是大煲鸡汤,连说得话都一样:It is a beginning, not an end. You should look forward. (这是新的开始,不是终结,勇敢地大步朝前吧!)但John要求毕业生在向前进的时候,先往回看看。
看什么呢?看看在宿舍、课堂、运动场上支持和帮助过自己的同学、朋友们。
“没有他们的支持,你不会走到这一步。你可能还是初来学校时那个怯生生的孩子,而不是今天这副自信满满、坚定沉着的模样。”
不要害怕回头看,因为回首时,你会发现有如此多的人在帮助你,你会发现这一路自己的成长惊人,这会给你更多自信,让你在面对未来时,有更强大的信念去战胜困难。
“因此,跌倒也没什么,爬起来;再跌倒,再爬起来就是。”
此外,他在致辞中援引了苏格拉底名言:未经自审的人生没有意义。
在最后,他为毕业生深情朗读了美国艺术家鲍勃·迪伦的《永远年轻》。
“愿上帝庇佑,护你前路;愿你美梦均可成真;愿你与人为善,相互扶持;愿你建成通往群星的天梯,稳妥沿它而上;愿你永远年轻;愿你成为正直之人;愿你成就真实自我;愿你永远感知真理,看向身边无尽光明;愿你勇敢无惧,坚强可靠;愿你永远年轻,拥有纯洁之心;愿你双手永远忙碌,愿你脚步永远轻盈;在变故横生之时,愿你根基牢靠;愿你心中永远充满快乐,愿你的歌声永远嘹亮;愿你永远年轻。”
12年后的今天,美国最高法院首席大法官罗伯茨(John Robert)在儿子的初中毕业典礼上的发言,在结尾处送上了与大部分毕业典礼相反的祝福,震动了全球互联网新闻头条。
译文:
"通常到这里毕业典礼的演讲嘉宾都会祝你们好运并送上祝福。我不会这样做,接下来我会告诉你为什么。”
“在未来的很多年中,时不时地,我祝福你被不公正地对待,因而你会知道公正的价值。我祝福你会遭受背叛,因为它会让你感受到忠诚的重要性。”
“很抱歉,但我会祝福你时不时地感到孤独,因而你不会把朋友当作理所当然。”
“我祝福你有时会有坏运气,因而你会意识到概率和运气在人生中扮演的角色,并且理解你的成功并不完全是你应得的,而其他人的失败也并不完全是他们所应得的。”
“而当你失败的时候,时不时地,我希望你的对手会因为你的失败而幸灾乐祸,这会让你意识到有风度的竞争精神的重要性。”
“我祝福你会被忽视,因而你会意识到倾听他人的重要性。”
“我祝福你遭受刚刚好的痛苦,能让你学会同理心。”
“无论我是否祝福你这些,它们都会发生。而你是否从中获益,取决于你是否能从你的不幸中参透它们想要传递给你的信息。”
“对某些事情来说,‘just do it’(只管去做)是个不错的建议,但直到你确定自己想过什么样的生活之前,这个建议要慎用。”
这应该是个人近年来看到的最打动人的毕业典礼结尾。
附上约翰·罗伯茨在卡迪根山中学的演讲原文分享给大家:
Thank you very much.
Rain, somebody said, is like confetti from heaven. So even the heavens are celebrating this morning, joining the rest of us at this wonderful commencement ceremony.
Before we go any further, graduates, you have an important task to perform because behind you are your parents and guardians. Two or three or four years ago, they drove into Cardigan, dropped you off, helped you get settled and then turned around and drove back out the gates. It was an extraordinary sacrifice for them. They drove down the trail of tears back to an emptier and lonelier house. They did that because the decision about your education, they knew, was about you. It was not about them. That sacrifice and others they made have brought you to this point. But this morning is not just about you. It is also about them, so I hope you will stand up and turn around and give them a great round of applause. Please.
Now when somebody asks me how the remarks at Cardigan went, I will be able to say they were interrupted by applause. Congratulations, class of 2017. You’ve reached an important milestone. An important stage of your life is behind you. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you it is the easiest stage of your life, but it is in the books. While you’ve been at Cardigan, you have all been a part of an important international community as well. And I think that needs to be particularly recognized.
[Roberts gave brief remarks in other languages.]
Now around the country today at colleges, high schools, middle schools, commencement speakers are standing before impatient graduates. And they are almost always saying the same things. They will say that today is a commencement exercise. ‘It is a beginning, not an end. You should look forward.’ And I think that is true enough, however, I think if you’re going to look forward to figure out where you’re going, it’s good to know where you’ve been and to look back as well. And I think if you look back to your first afternoon here at Cardigan, perhaps you will recall that you were lonely. Perhaps you will recall that you were a little scared, a little anxious. And now look at you. You are surrounded by friends that you call brothers, and you are confident in facing the next step in your education.
It is worth trying to think why that is so. And when you do, I think you may appreciate that it was because of the support of your classmates in the classroom, on the athletic field and in the dorms. And as far as the confidence goes, I think you will appreciate that it is not because you succeeded at everything you did, but because with the help of your friends, you were not afraid to fail. And if you did fail, you got up and tried again. And if you failed again, you got up and tried again. And if you failed again, it might be time to think about doing something else. But it was not just success, but not being afraid to fail that brought you to this point.
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.
Now commencement speakers are also expected to give some advice. They give grand advice, and they give some useful tips. The most common grand advice they give is for you to be yourself. It is an odd piece of advice to give people dressed identically, but you should — you should be yourself. But you should understand what that means. Unless you are perfect, it does not mean don’t make any changes. In a certain sense, you should not be yourself. You should try to become something better. People say ‘be yourself’ because they want you to resist the impulse to conform to what others want you to be. But you can’t be yourself if you don't learn who are, and you can’t learn who you are unless you think about it. The Greek philosopher Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ And while ‘just do it’ might be a good motto for some things, it’s not a good motto when it’s trying to figure out how to live your life that is before you. And one important clue to living a good life is to not to try to live the good life. The best way to lose the values that are central to who you are is frankly not to think about them at all. So that’s the deep advice.
Now some tips as you get ready to go to your new school. Other the last couple of years, I have gotten to know many of you young men pretty well, and I know you are good guys. But you are also privileged young men. And if you weren’t privileged when you came here, you are privileged now because you have been here. My advice is: Don’t act like it. When you get to your new school, walk up and introduce yourself to the person who is raking the leaves, shoveling the snow or emptying the trash. Learn their name and call them by their name during your time at the school.
Another piece of advice: When you pass by people you don’t recognize on the walks, smile, look them in the eye and say hello. The worst thing that will happen is that you will become known as the young man who smiles and says hello, and that is not a bad thing to start with.You’ve been at a school with just boys. Most of you will be going to a school with girls. I have no advice for you. The last bit of advice I’ll give you is very simple, but I think it could make a big difference in your life. Once a week, you should write a note to someone. Not an email. A note on a piece of paper. It will take you exactly 10 minutes. Talk to an adult, let them tell you what a stamp is. You can put the stamp on the envelope. Again, 10 minutes, once a week. I will help you, right now. I will dictate to you the first note you should write. It will say, ‘Dear [fill in the name of a teacher at Cardigan Mountain School].’ Say: ‘I have started at this new school. We are reading [blank] in English. Football or soccer practice is hard, but I’m enjoying it. Thank you for teaching me.’ Put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it and send it. It will mean a great deal to people who — for reasons most of us cannot contemplate — have dedicated themselves to teaching middle school boys. As I said, that will take you exactly 10 minutes a week. By the end of the school year, you will have sent notes to 40 people. Forty people will feel a little more special because you did, and they will think you are very special because of what you did. No one else is going to carry that dividend during your time at school.
Enough advice. I would like to end by reading some important lyrics. I cited the Greek philosopher Socrates earlier. These lyrics are from the great American philosopher, Bob Dylan. They’re almost 50 years old. He wrote them for his son, Jesse, who he was missing while he was on tour. It lists the hopes that a parent might have for a son and for a daughter. They’re also good goals for a son and a daughter. The wishes are beautiful, they’re timeless. They’re universal. They’re good and true, except for one: It is the wish that gives the song its title and its refrain. That wish is a parent’s lament. It’s not a good wish. So these are the lyrics from Forever Young by Bob Dylan:
May God bless you and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung And may you stay forever young May you grow up to be righteous May you grow up to be true May you always know the truth And see the lights surrounding you May you always be courageous Stand upright and be strong And may you stay forever young May your hands always be busy May your feet always be swift May you have a strong foundation When the winds of changes shift May your heart always be joyful May your song always be sung And may you stay forever young.
Thank you.
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