Although he is autistic and normally not very verbal, Sef Scott gave a six-minute graduation speech with a valuable message for all of us: Do the unexpected!
Standing in line a restaurant? When your name is called, let the people behind you go first, he says. “That simple gesture could brighten what could have been a gloomy day.” Bought tickets to an event in advance and suddenly not be able to make it? Donate your tickets, he suggested. And pause to say “thank you for doing a great job” to the person with special needs who bagged your groceries.
“You can sprinkle unexpected moments throughout your everyday life that can benefit those around you with very little effort on your part.”
The biggest kind of unexpected, Scott says, is to live for yourself. “Ask yourself: are your next steps where you want to go? If they aren’t, step off of that path. Will that be unexpected? It probably will be if you are not sharing your hopes and dreams with your loved ones,” he said.
“Don’t follow someone else’s dreams. Don’t waste time on something you never wanted. Do the unexpected. It is your life that you are living, not someone else’s so do what fulfills you.”
This week, take this powerful idea seriously. As Sef says, do the unexpected and give the gift of your best self to yourself and to the world.
Tips from 5 April 2010 to 6 August 2012 are here: Archived Tips
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Rev. Debra Basham
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