CLASS OF 2024
CLASS OF 2024
Salutatorian | Timothy Russoniello
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one in mine. I believe that at the end of the day, it seems like rational decision. The marginal benefit of doing another day consistently falls short of the marginal cost. Nonetheless adding marginal benefit to your day can be done. The human capacity for despair, true and unrivaled despair is large. It is a pit with no edges or bottom. The only thing to illuminate that pit is the emotion with unremitting and infinite light, passion. Find something that makes life worth living and pursue it like a rabid dog. Anything and everything that adds even an ounce of joy to your day is worth spending the day on. For me, that passion is for learning and growing my intellect, but I have also found passion in music, running, praying, and friends. Passion. No, hope is everywhere. And in a world, in a system so bogged down by mundane repetitive day-to-day it’s easy to overlook that beautiful, that most important facet of being alive. I would like to ask you all to see the hope within you always. Commit to holding onto it. And moving forward, regardless of what happens to you after high school, or what challenges you face, hold onto it. For in hope you find life. That is the single most important thing I learned from high school and the single most important thing I could tell you all. Hold onto your hope. Thank you.
ell, we made it. We survived. We’re here, right now. Everybody here has been tested in flame and forged into the people I see. But, looking back on my high school years, I see that my hardest challenge wasn’t
the classes, it wasn’t the social stress, it wasn’t not falling asleep in class. It was those first few moments of every day. For in those moments, you make the conscious decision to get up and do it all again. Grades aside, rank aside, life aside, I would like to congratulate every single one of you for choosing to not just live, but to live for yourself every day, it is no easy choice. Life is the flame, tempering us to a certain degree, and preparing us for when the hammer of decision strikes. I refuse to trivialize that or to pretend I’m any more deserving of recognition when that is the bulk of the challenge and we all won, or are winning, right now. I feel compelled to offer advice on this issue. Because over the past 10 years, I have lost friends, fellow athletes, and classmates to suicide. In the 7th grade, I nearly lost myself. I do not know how large a role that incredibly difficult subject matter has played in everyone’s life but it has been a large
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