New York, United States of America- New York University (NYU), yesterday awarded global pop icon, Taylor Swift, with an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts at the Yankee Stadium.
The 32-year-old Grammy Award winner acknowledged that although she never attended college, she understood the input that fellow graduates had put especially in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
“I would like to thank NYU for making me technically, on paper at least, a Doctor. I imagine the idea of a normal college experience was all you wanted but in this case, you and I both learned that you don’t always get all the things in the bag that you selected from the menu in the delivery service, that is life!
Life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once. Part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about to catch and release. What I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep, and what things to release.
You can’t carry all things, all grudges, all updates on your ex, all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund his uncle started. Decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go.
In your life, you will inevitably misspeak, trust the wrong people, under-react, overreact, hurt the people who didn’t deserve it, overthink, not think at all, self-sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists, ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others, deny any wrongdoing, not take the steps to make it right and feel very guilty. Let the guilt eat at you, hit rock bottom, finally address the pain you caused, try to do better next time, rinse, repeat.
A lot of the time when we lose things, we gain things too. We are led by our gut instincts, our intuition, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams. Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it,” said Dr. Swift.
