Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it. And as long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out.
Taylor Swift
New York University Commencement 2022, 2022
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Swift closed her speech with a meditation on resilience that doubled as gentle humor — reminding the audience that she was now technically a doctor and therefore qualified to explain how breathing works. But beneath the joke was a sincere message about the cyclical nature of hardship and recovery. Speaking to a graduating class that had endured a global pandemic during their college years — locked in dorms, attending classes over Zoom, taking countless COVID tests — Swift's words carried special weight. She acknowledged that life doesn't deliver everything you ordered, but the capacity to endure, learn, and keep going is what defines a life well lived.
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