My Advice to High School Seniors

My Advice to High School Seniors

 

My advice to seniors is simply this:

never listen to anyone’s advice.

Those words come from places of

experience, it’s true, but are

covered with cobwebs of regret and

longing, the caked on dust of disillusion,

they are shadowed by a life

that is not yours – nor will it ever be.

Don’t stop for advice or directions or a map

when the future stretches before you.

In fact, don’t stop for anything

unless it is to notice the way

sunbeams dance along the waters,

or trees swaying in the afternoon breeze,

the crinkles at the corners of your grandfather’s eyes

and the way your dog’s fur smells

after he comes in after an hour of

basking in the sun on the back porch.

May you come to something… unexpected!