sharad-sagar

I wonder how can I ever work for an organization that pollutes the world and refuses to clean up and sometimes even own up. And, I wonder how on earth can I work for an organization where one of my fellow classmates wouldn__ get the same paycheck and the same perks and the same benefits as I would simply because she is a girl.

To all the students - no school report card can tell you weather you can achieve your dream or not. Know your purpose, know your dream, know your vision, stay focused, do your job and do not listen to anyone including your report card. Don__ let the board results or rankings bother you. Do what you are passionate about, work harder, do better but don__ let your mark sheet tell you anything.

The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it.

Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids.

Remember, there are people who care for us: there are some who grow food for us, some who cook for us, some who take our trash out, some who keep us safe, some who call us late at night when it__ been a tough day and some who are right by our side the next morning when we are sick, some who smile at us, some who hold the door for us, some who compliment us, who back us, who pray for us. And, they can be friends and family and mentors and relatives and sometimes, in fact, most of the times, even perfect strangers. Let__ be grateful to each one of them, let__ be grateful to all those around us.

We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.

Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!

Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with.

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

I know I could__e been on the other side of the line too. I refuse to accept injustice and inequality because I know it can be against any one of us, our brothers and sisters and friends and family. I know it__ personal. I know this is our only chance, our only planet, our only shot. And, I know this is my brick.

The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it. And, for that, the world needs us. It needs us to get invested. It needs us to be more grateful. It needs us to take things personally! And, I know together we can make it happen. I know wherever you__l go; you__l stand for change, for peace, for justice, for equality, for each other, and for a better tomorrow. You__l put in your brick. I know. I know.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

I__ always heard people say and I__ sure you heard it too, __hange takes time._ But, my parents taught me the more important lesson, very silently but with even greater clarity, __hange takes time. But, it also takes people._ People who are willing to put in their everything. Change doesn__ happen by itself.

I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change.

Change needs us. Change needs people who are willing to invest themselves and their time and their energy and all that they can in making it happen. And, remember, if we don__ quit; if we choose to walk the more difficult path; if we refuse to give up, no matter how long the road or how steep the climb; we will make change happen.

Let's be grateful to all those who came in before us. Grateful to all those men and women, young and old alike, who paved the path forward for us, brick by brick. To those men and women who marched across the bridge in Selma on that great day, those men and women who rallied behind the Gandhis and the Mandelas every single time they were needed, to those men and women who stood up for voting rights and civil rights and gay rights and equality and justice and a free world, those men and women who invented the future by inventing things that fundamentally changed the world from the electricity to vaccinations, from airplanes to birth control pills, from the printing press to the internet.

We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them.