Swift started her 20-minute-long speech by stepping up to the mic and simply saying, Hi, Im Taylor.
She then went on to acknowledge her own fame with a clever quip.
I am 90% sure I am here because I have a song called ‘22.’
Her speech included themes that weve come to expect with commencement speechesbut with a Swift twist, of course.
Decide what is yours to hold, and let the rest go, she shared.
Swift also recommended that the graduates learn to live alongside cringe because wincing at the past is inevitable.
(One day we might think of the slang cringe and actually cringe.)
Nearly every commencement speech has some form of your whole life is before you.
Swift reminds the graduating class of this fact.
Scary news is, you’re on your own now.
Cool news is, you’re on your own now.
You will screw it up sometimes.
And when I do, you will most likely read about it on the internet.
Anyway, hard things will happen to us, Swift continued.
We will learn from it.
We will grow more resilient because of it.
If you need a pick-me-up, watch the rest of Swifts speech below.
Anyway, hard things will happen to us, she said.
We will learn from it.
We will grow more resilient because of it.
