This is what these kids need to hear.
Via CNS News:
As the commencement speaker for the class of 2015 at the University of Houston, Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey advised the graduates that life is “not fair” and it “won’t ever be,” and urged them to not adopt the mentality that they are “a victim” and entitled to things.
“Life’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now and it won’t ever be,” McConaughey, a Texas native, told the graduates on May 15.
He also told them, “Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap, of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.”
McConaughey, who started his acting career in television commercials in the early 1990s, also gave the graduating students some advise on jobs and the economy.
“Some of you already have a job lined up, you have a path where today’s job is going to become tomorrow’s career,” he said. “But for most of you, the future is probably still a little fuzzy. And you don’t have that job that directly reflects the degree that you just got.”
“Many of you don’t even have a job at all,” said McConaughey. “You don’t have the answers and it’s pretty damn scary. And I say that’s okay because that is how it is.”
“This is the reality that many of you are facing, this is the world that we live in,” he said.