have you ever been sitting in a coffee
shop and you look around at all the
hustle and bustle the people coming in
or during their coffee drinking it and
then leaving going on with their day
what about driving on the freeway
looking at all the cars buzzing past you
at any given second each having
somewhere to go something to do or how
about looking out your window at night
perhaps our houses some might have
lights on some might not but inside
those houses there are people I love
thinking about this stuff it seems like
I have this constant realization that
each and every person’s life is just as
complex as mine and this gets me
thinking about our bodies as human
beings we are incredibly intricate we
have 30 trillion cells seamlessly
interacting with each other at any given
point in time that tell us what to think
how to move and the reality in which we
perceive this is incredibly small scale
yet there are 7.5 billion of these
bodies these human beings on the planet
Earth today yet these are two things
that we know we know that everybody has
a very complex life and we know that
everybody has a very intricate body this
gets me thinking about things that we
don’t know three particular things come
to mind the universe future knowledge
and lack of technology and or brain
capacity in the grand scheme of things
we are unfathomably small we live on a
very small planet which makes up a very
small solar system which with millions
and millions of other solar systems
makes up a galaxy and this galaxy with
millions and millions of other galaxies
makes up the universe but before the
universe time space and matter didn’t
exist so we literally came from nothing
and now our universe is expanding in an
ever ly increasing rate according to
time dilation time passes at a different
rate depending on your speed in your
gravity we could be thousands and
thousands of years ahead of the next
civilization out there they could be
cavemen at this point in time
mitochondria in a prehistoric pond we
could also be thousands and thousands
years behind the next civilization
out there they could be looking at us
laughing at us as if we were the cavemen
but what’s the difference between us and
the cavemen it’s knowledge knowledge is
constantly evolving and we know more
today than we have ever known in past
years even the knowledge we had 100
years ago is much different than the
knowledge we have today looking back a
hundred years they didn’t know who
Justin Bieber was they didn’t know what
Star Wars was or the Millennium Falcon
and I’m quite sure that they couldn’t
even begin to comprehend the
capabilities of modern-day supercomputer
many of us carry with us today this gets
me thinking forward a hundred years
who’s the next Justin Bieber what’s the
next start worse is there another
Millennium Falcon is there technology
out there that we can’t even begin to
imagine at this point in time think
about how much of a paradigm shift the
invention of the computer was this
revolutionized our world and many people
couldn’t even begin to comprehend it
I believe that although as society we
think we are very smart and very
advanced that we actually know very
little about our world our brains can’t
think past that third dimension and I
believe that we are just beginning to
discover our technology I mean what if
coincidences were actually tangible and
quantifiable but we just left the brain
capacity and/or technology to see them
what if in the air all around us there’s
an elaborate system of electronic pulses
that are locks and coincidences are the
keys just a couple of weeks ago my mom
siblings and I went to a sushi
restaurant we haven’t been to this
restaurant in years and our decision to
go was mostly based on a two-for-one out
in the paper my dad couldn’t make it
with us because he was on a business
trip in New York he hardly ever travels
for business and he hasn’t been in New
York in over a decade as we sit down at
the restaurant we see my lacrosse coach
and he comes over and says hello to us
and then tells us how earlier that day
he ran into my dad at the JFK Airport in
New York what a coincidence we all said
but what if this wasn’t a coincidence
what if this wasn’t a random series of
events why did this happen this gives me
thinking about the impact that each and
every one of us have on each other’s
lives recently in my Spanish class we
listen to a song called he Tana by
Shakira in this song Shakira says my
gypsy heart only beats Conner
clockwise shortly after listening to the
song we watched a video and it showed
six or seven kids who are classified as
gypsies and what they thought about
being a gypsy at first they were very
happy excited to be belonging to
something and then they were handed the
dictionary and told to look up what
gypsy actually means when they saw that
the Spanish dictionary defines gypsy as
liar trickster and cheater all the
sudden the kids didn’t want to be
considered gypsies they felt dejected
and hurt
Shakira writes a song reaching out to
these kids letting them know that they
can be counterclockwise and go against
the stigma that’s been created for
gypsies she’s empathizing for them and
reaching them through song without
actually ever meeting them speaking of
music just a couple weeks ago I went to
a concert I had this concert there were
20,000 other people if you were to put
this group of 20000 people out on the
street there wouldn’t be one word that
could describe us we came from every
different demographic imaginable yet on
one night at one time in one place we
all came together to see one performer
all of us left our routines our habits
our friends and our inherent craziness
to come together as a concert concludes
and the crowd starts to disperse I think
to myself wow I’m probably never gonna
see any of these people ever again to me
all they were were faces in the crowd
voices singing along and energy filling
the room and to them I was the same this
overwhelming realization that each and
every life is just as vivid and just as
complex as your own the Germans they
have a word for it it’s called sander &
Saunders the moment when you realize
that you could be that extra sipping
coffee in the background you could be
that blur of traffic on the highway and
you could be that lighted window at dusk
[Applause]
shop and you look around at all the
hustle and bustle the people coming in
or during their coffee drinking it and
then leaving going on with their day
what about driving on the freeway
looking at all the cars buzzing past you
at any given second each having
somewhere to go something to do or how
about looking out your window at night
perhaps our houses some might have
lights on some might not but inside
those houses there are people I love
thinking about this stuff it seems like
I have this constant realization that
each and every person’s life is just as
complex as mine and this gets me
thinking about our bodies as human
beings we are incredibly intricate we
have 30 trillion cells seamlessly
interacting with each other at any given
point in time that tell us what to think
how to move and the reality in which we
perceive this is incredibly small scale
yet there are 7.5 billion of these
bodies these human beings on the planet
Earth today yet these are two things
that we know we know that everybody has
a very complex life and we know that
everybody has a very intricate body this
gets me thinking about things that we
don’t know three particular things come
to mind the universe future knowledge
and lack of technology and or brain
capacity in the grand scheme of things
we are unfathomably small we live on a
very small planet which makes up a very
small solar system which with millions
and millions of other solar systems
makes up a galaxy and this galaxy with
millions and millions of other galaxies
makes up the universe but before the
universe time space and matter didn’t
exist so we literally came from nothing
and now our universe is expanding in an
ever ly increasing rate according to
time dilation time passes at a different
rate depending on your speed in your
gravity we could be thousands and
thousands of years ahead of the next
civilization out there they could be
cavemen at this point in time
mitochondria in a prehistoric pond we
could also be thousands and thousands
years behind the next civilization
out there they could be looking at us
laughing at us as if we were the cavemen
but what’s the difference between us and
the cavemen it’s knowledge knowledge is
constantly evolving and we know more
today than we have ever known in past
years even the knowledge we had 100
years ago is much different than the
knowledge we have today looking back a
hundred years they didn’t know who
Justin Bieber was they didn’t know what
Star Wars was or the Millennium Falcon
and I’m quite sure that they couldn’t
even begin to comprehend the
capabilities of modern-day supercomputer
many of us carry with us today this gets
me thinking forward a hundred years
who’s the next Justin Bieber what’s the
next start worse is there another
Millennium Falcon is there technology
out there that we can’t even begin to
imagine at this point in time think
about how much of a paradigm shift the
invention of the computer was this
revolutionized our world and many people
couldn’t even begin to comprehend it
I believe that although as society we
think we are very smart and very
advanced that we actually know very
little about our world our brains can’t
think past that third dimension and I
believe that we are just beginning to
discover our technology I mean what if
coincidences were actually tangible and
quantifiable but we just left the brain
capacity and/or technology to see them
what if in the air all around us there’s
an elaborate system of electronic pulses
that are locks and coincidences are the
keys just a couple of weeks ago my mom
siblings and I went to a sushi
restaurant we haven’t been to this
restaurant in years and our decision to
go was mostly based on a two-for-one out
in the paper my dad couldn’t make it
with us because he was on a business
trip in New York he hardly ever travels
for business and he hasn’t been in New
York in over a decade as we sit down at
the restaurant we see my lacrosse coach
and he comes over and says hello to us
and then tells us how earlier that day
he ran into my dad at the JFK Airport in
New York what a coincidence we all said
but what if this wasn’t a coincidence
what if this wasn’t a random series of
events why did this happen this gives me
thinking about the impact that each and
every one of us have on each other’s
lives recently in my Spanish class we
listen to a song called he Tana by
Shakira in this song Shakira says my
gypsy heart only beats Conner
clockwise shortly after listening to the
song we watched a video and it showed
six or seven kids who are classified as
gypsies and what they thought about
being a gypsy at first they were very
happy excited to be belonging to
something and then they were handed the
dictionary and told to look up what
gypsy actually means when they saw that
the Spanish dictionary defines gypsy as
liar trickster and cheater all the
sudden the kids didn’t want to be
considered gypsies they felt dejected
and hurt
Shakira writes a song reaching out to
these kids letting them know that they
can be counterclockwise and go against
the stigma that’s been created for
gypsies she’s empathizing for them and
reaching them through song without
actually ever meeting them speaking of
music just a couple weeks ago I went to
a concert I had this concert there were
20,000 other people if you were to put
this group of 20000 people out on the
street there wouldn’t be one word that
could describe us we came from every
different demographic imaginable yet on
one night at one time in one place we
all came together to see one performer
all of us left our routines our habits
our friends and our inherent craziness
to come together as a concert concludes
and the crowd starts to disperse I think
to myself wow I’m probably never gonna
see any of these people ever again to me
all they were were faces in the crowd
voices singing along and energy filling
the room and to them I was the same this
overwhelming realization that each and
every life is just as vivid and just as
complex as your own the Germans they
have a word for it it’s called sander &
Saunders the moment when you realize
that you could be that extra sipping
coffee in the background you could be
that blur of traffic on the highway and
you could be that lighted window at dusk
[Applause]
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