“There are two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes ‘What the hell is water?”
Thus begins one of - if not the - greatest commencement speeches ever delivered.
At a graduation ceremony on the 21st of May 2005, writer David Foster Wallace stood up to a podium and addressed the new graduates of Kenyon College in Gambier*, Ohio, with a speech that would later be heard all over the world.
The speech was called “This Is Water” and sought to emphasise the real gift given to these students by their liberal arts education: the freedom to think and derive meaning from seemingly meaningless events.
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