Occasionally I stumble upon internet finds that aren't related to Ohio...I know, it's hardly believable but it does happen. Sarcasm aside, I found this famous commencement speech by David Foster Wallace (author of Infinite Jest) given at Kenyon College, located in Gambier, OH (ok, I guess it is sort of Ohio related). I would definitely give it a read here. Below is a snippet but the whole speech is well worth the read:
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
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