Take 3

Sunday morning I got up and noticed my first gray hair. It was long and wavy and shimmering silver-white. I almost kept it as a memento, but I figured there will be more as the years progress. A brown one would make more sense to save.
If I live long enough for all of my hair to fade I'm going to dye it bright pink, maybe bright red-orange. Hopefully by then I've done enough at work to earn my loud hair and plaid dress-pants.

But for right now, I'm just 24 and inexperienced. A lone woman trying to figure it all out. I literally have no idea where my life will go after this summer. If I weren't so laughingly insignificant I would change the world. I feel like I can do anything and nothing at the same time.
And I call being lost an adventure.

Justice Kennedy addressed the stadium Sunday afternoon. He spoke of privilege and responsibility. Starting today, we should, as educated young adults, begin to give back to a nation that blessed us with an opportunity to succeed. We have a moral obligation to further justice in this world-- to guard and spread freedom across the globe. He warned us about the dangers of complacency and ignorance. "You cannot defend what you do not know."
He urged us to "make the case for the idea of law and freedom... to a doubting world". He told many stories of the terrible injustice commonplace in other countries; examples of corruption and tyranny. I found his ultimate reason to be the most hopeful and compelling of all:

"In the long run our last, best security is in the realm of ideas."

I see this as an argument for education and constructive, open-minded discussion. Dialog instead of military force, intolerance, oppression or international isolation.
We will all be okay.