Chapter 1368： motivational speech

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"I'm twenty-three years old, and I'm not a professional or an authority figure. It seems a little inappropriate for me to stand in this position. Sorry, Mr. Summers." Exposing his shortcomings, he also apologized to Lawrence Summers for choosing him as a guest speaker for such self-depreciation. This novel way of speaking made the students on the scene laugh, "I'm actually a college student just like you. , everyone should know, I just received my diploma here, God." The students at the scene couldn't control it, and laughed outright.

"So, I don't think I'm qualified to say big things. I'm going to tell a few stories today, or say, my personal experience, that's enough." Evan Bell said with a smile, then raised himself Right hand, "Let's limit to three, don't let my tirade become a lullaby, remember to remind me."

Many students at the scene actually raised their hands and stretched out three fingers to help Evan Bell start counting. Such a scene really made people laugh.

"The first one is about my life." Evan Bell raised his index finger and said, "I seem to have heard many people say that I am very talented, and sometimes I will ask myself, with a guilty conscience, 'Hey man, are you really that talented?' Then I'll nod my head complacently and tell myself, yes." Evan Bell said with a confident and bright smile, letting the The applause from the audience immediately rang out. Evan Bell's tone is confident but not arrogant. There is an inherent persuasiveness that makes people involuntarily agree. "But our dear Edison said that genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. So. Even if I had one percent inspiration, I think the remaining nine percent Nineteen is the most important thing. It has to start when I was born."

"As we all know, I was born into a single parent family. I also have an older brother, and my great mother raised both of us. But it's just part of life, and few people know that I was a I don't know how to talk, my mother is just a girl who just graduated from high school. A twenty-year-old unmarried mother with two children raised our two brothers on her own hands and tender shoulders . This is not a Hollywood fairy tale. It is reality and my life." After Evan Bell said these words, there was no ridicule and humor before. Although he still had a smile on his mouth, the audience was silent. It was out of tune with the festive atmosphere of the graduation ceremony.

Everyone stared at Evan Bell in amazement. When everyone thinks they know enough about Evan Bell, he can often surprise people. No one knows about Evan Bell's childhood. Because the Bell family never said anything, and Evan Bell didn't plan to say it today, he just leaked a little bit of information lightly, but it was enough to make people stunned. Seeing Evan Bell's ability to make waves in the world now, who can imagine what the Bell family has experienced. Perhaps, now everyone will no longer be curious about the reasons why Evan Bell insists on **music and **movies.

Catherine Bell, who was under the stage, looked at her younger son in the sunlight, and suddenly felt her eyes warm, and she quickly closed her eyes. The strength of these years has made her accustomed to a life without tears. She knows how to put away all the sorrows when she is vulnerable, and she plans to do the same at this time. But there was a burst of warmth from the right hand, Catherine Bell turned her head and looked over, and saw Teddy Bell's blurred face through the crystal tears, as well as the worry on Eden Hudson's iceberg face, Catherine - Bell's eyes were still full of tears, but a bright smile appeared. At this moment, she was the happiest mother in the world.

Evan Bell, who was standing on the podium, still said with a smile, "During those years, what I was afraid of was not poverty, nor failure, nor so-called setbacks. What I was afraid of was the lack of someone to enjoy life, The heart that loves life, if our eyes are blinded by poverty, failure, and setbacks, or even the parents who love us, the happiness brought by a glass of milk, and the joy of being alive, then maybe life itself Without meaning, why should I care about the so-called poverty, failure and setback? So, even in those dark years, I am very fortunate that I have a happy and happy family, and I can clearly see at this point."

"Later, I joined Broadway, where I met my mentor Travie Nunn and spent ten years as an apprentice." Evan Bell spoke a little faster, the only constant, It was the lightness in his tone. He didn't want to deliberately create that kind of heavy atmosphere. On the contrary, he hoped to be able to convey the sunshine in his heart, which was the most important thing. "In those ten years, I have experienced many special things, for example, I entered college and came here; for example, I joined a band called Melancholy, which became my inspiration for music creation; for example, I used to pick up Coke cans just to raise money so that the band could continue to operate; for example, I practiced dancing on an abandoned garbage stage until it got dark; for example, I learned that every minute of the stage is exciting It takes a month or even a year of hard work in the audience; for example, I walked through most of the city home, just to save coins for a subway ride; for example, I drove across the entire United States, just to see the world. Wonderful……"

"In the eyes of different people, this decade of life has different appearances, it may be wasteful, it may be profligate, it may be free, it may be romantic, it may be poverty, it may be painful, it may be It's torture... Hehe, but that's not my point of view." Evan Bell chuckled, "In my opinion, these ten years are precious and irreplaceable. These ten years can be To conclude with a quote from 'Little Miss Sunshine'."

"You know Marcel Proust? French writer, total loser, never had a real job, unrewarded unrequited love, gay. Spent twenty years writing a book, Hardly anyone reads, but he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, at the last moment of his life, he looks back and looks at all the painful times, and he thinks the painful days are the best of his life because those days shaped him. What about the happy years? You know, wasted nothing and learned nothing. So, if we got to where we are today, think about how much pain you would have missed. And In our life, these painful days engraved one stop sign after another on the road of life, and when we look back, we can see it at a glance.”

Speaking of this, Evan Bell suddenly opened his hands and said with a smile, "So, learn to embrace life, especially those pains." The students in the audience suddenly laughed softly.

"My short 23-year-old life can be divided into three stages. The first stage is until the age of eight. My mother taught me that suffering is also a part of life, don't blame others, learn to use your own hands to change your life, if If you can't change, then learn to enjoy it. Because smiling is always more powerful than complaining. In the second stage, from my eight-year-old to eighteen-year-old, my teacher taught me that persistence and hard work are the keys to success , Maybe you are very good, but there will always be people better than you in this world. You can't put yourself in the position of others, but you should stand in your own position and work hard towards a better self. The third stage is from the age of nineteen to the present. The society has taught me that nothing is accidental. Everything happens after the accumulation of countless inevitable accumulations. My life today is the accumulation of countless pasts. And today will also be one of the factors that will build tomorrow.”

"At this very moment, we don't know what this moment will do for the future, it's like in the previous life we ​​didn't know what every happiness and every pain will make, because we can't predict life in advance. We can only look back at the past based on the present, and look back at the present based on the future, and then we will understand how these moments are connected together." Evan Bell's voice is very clear, In the morning sun in Boston, it is like a crystal version, and it is like a diamond. It shines in the heart of every student. "Without my mother, I may not be able to survive at all, or become a self-sacrificing person. without my teacher, I might not even know what a stage is, what is music, what is performance. This is life, and it is only when all things play out in the far future that we realize: oh, it turns out Life is never in vain."

"So you have to trust that what you're going through now will be connected in the future, because every moment is what shapes you. You have to trust this thing, intuition and fate. Well, life, or karma. This approach has never let me down, and my life has been completely different because of it.”

When Evan Bell finished saying this, the applause from the audience immediately broke out, and it quickly became one. Twenty-three-year-old Evan Bell, just as Lawrence Summers expected, moved the graduates of Harvard University in the simplest way with his youthful maturity and age-appropriate spirit. . As a guest speaker, Evan Bell has done an enviably good job.

"How many stories have I told? Why do I feel like I have told so many stories just now." Evan Bell had just finished expounding a serious topic, and the humorous strokes made the scene laugh out loud again . Many students cooperated and shouted, "One, one", and the atmosphere was very lively.

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