Albright identified one of the most common traps of a privileged life: the infinite deferral of meaningful action. We wait 'until we are out of school, until we can afford a down payment on a home, until we can finance college for our own children, or until we can free up time in retirement.' Each 'until' feels reasonable in the moment, but together they consume an entire life. The airplane metaphor — 'our plane has crashed' — connected back to her opening story about Flight 93 and Tom Burnett. But here the crash wasn't a terrorist attack; it was the slow, quiet crash of a life spent preparing to live rather than actually living. The passengers on Flight 93 had no more 'untils' left, and their response was to act. Albright was asking graduates whether they would need that kind of extremity to start doing something meaningful, or whether they could begin now. Coming from a woman who had been a refugee from both Nazism and Communism before becoming the highest-ranking woman in U.S. government history, the warning carried enormous weight. Albright had never waited for the perfect moment. She had acted when action was needed and figured out the rest later.