Totally worth the read if you haven’t read it before.

http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words

It’s a commencement speech given a few years back by a famously gifted author (who has since taken his own life).  His name is David Foster Walalce.

My favorite part:

“Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it.

This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Continue reading…