Some added advice for graduates

Your editorial exhorting today's and future graduates to not place self-imposed limits on their life aspirations was very poignant; especially in today's culture, where so much talk is of concepts like victimization and privilege.

When the conviction that one is born into an immutable state in life which cannot be challenged based on the circumstances of your progenitors is drilled into our children in early life, it is easy to picture the hopeless futures which many of our young see before them.

A piece of advice I would add to yours would be "Don't place limits on your aspirations and don't let others - be they family, friends, or what you read or hear in social commentary - convince you that you can't choose your own path, dream your own dreams, or make your visions a reality. Listen to those in your life who tell you that you can and reject the advice of those who would tell you otherwise, for they are many today and their motives should be suspect for many reasons."

Stephen J. Gohmann

Huntley