History was made at this year’s Commencement ceremony for Lake Highlands High School. Students, faculty and parents were mesmerized by the inspirational challenge delivered by this year’s Commencement speaker, His Most Excellent and Magnanimous Potentate Self – the Keffi Lama. An obscure leader from an unfamiliar part of the world instantaneously impressed the spellbound audience with his simple yet profound wisdom. [By permission of the “Lama Institute for Greater Consciousness (without feeling bloated),” the Advocate is printing the following excerpts from his speech.]
“I am filled with awe, like a doughnut with jelly, when I gaze out over the audience and see your faces. I can’t help but immediately wonder – who are you? And then I remember that I am not in my homeland of Hopscotchistan, so I’m not supposed to know you.
As I listened to the angelic voice of the young girl who just sang, I closed my eyes, I recalled a distant memory of when I had hair, and then I went to sleep.
I have been asked to share the wisdom of my years with you. But my wisdom is the wisdom of my father and his father before him – but not my great-grandfather, I think he was some sort of village doofus. What can I tell you about life that can equate to living? What can I tell you about pain that can equate to forgiving? I don’t know, but I think I should be delivering this speech in Nashville.
Many wise men have said that you are what you eat. If that is true, then I should be a big, stinking hunk of sushi. So don’t always believe what the supposed wise men say. The first step to wisdom is recognizing that it is not wise to talk back to a policeman. The second step is realizing that you can vote, too.
