Stay Cool Page #9

What are you gonna do?

Suspend them too?

If necessary, yes.

Look, I'll be ok.

I'm fine.

Just let me cross campus over here

and get my speech approved.

All right?

There's a running track

goes around the campus.

Various entrances for guests.

"72% of the graduating class

"will be on an anti-depressant.

"61% will be divorced."

Very interesting.

I do find your choices humorous,

somewhat shocking and very clever.

But, overall, I can't allow this.

While you will be grabbing their attention

with frightening statistics about the future,

ultimately it will be ineffective.

The truth just doesn't go over

well these days, does it?

"Speak when you're angry, and you'll make

the best speech you'll ever regret."

Lawrence Peter.

Thank you.

I just don't think time would permit me

to write a speech

that you would approve.

You already have.

Henry!

Your suitcase has arrived!

Even when it was uncomfortable,

high school forced me

to live in my own skin,

which included my clothes.

Now, I would like to introduce West Rockville

to one of my all-time favorite students.

He attended the school some years ago,

and he's a writer now doing quite well

I understand.

Please welcome your commencement speaker,

Mr. Henry McCarthy.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

If I could read from

this little book that I wrote.

"I would eventually learn that every one of us

"would carry our moments differently...

"Their color, their shape,

their feeling.

"They will all be different depending on our

intentions and use for them.

"I sat with each moment for long periods of time.

"One moment I will continue to feed,

"give it all my love and attention.

"I would worry,

"was it gonna hatch into a beautiful memory?

"or would it die on a vine?

"I stand here today

because of that memory.

"Every day, it bounces

from my head to my heart

"to my stomach aimlessly.

"There is no place

to hide this memory,

"not even the pages of this book.

"It has affected the way I speak,

"the way I talk,

"the way I live.

"Remember this, our memories

make us who we are.

"These 4 years will

only become that, your memories.

"You can't define them,

"but they can define you."

Congratulations.

Go, Henry!

Whoo!

Jesse, right?

Hi!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Such a good speech!

You be good, ok?

Does this mean you're gone?

Oh, no.

Honey.

Bye!

Brilliant. Brilliant.

Jerk!

Listen, I got a plane to catch.

Are you gonna be ok?

I'm good.

Good to go.

Go. Go, Javier.

All right.

Good. Ok. Call me!

God created IHOP.

Auh.

And there was like,

God said, "let there be ihop."

and there was IHOP.

You didn't come back here

to talk to 1,000 students.

You came back to

talk to one person.

Yeah, well...

It is what it is.

She is what she is.

"It is what it is,"

he says.

You know what I have

to say to that?

No.

Mm-hmm.

No.

There have been times in my life

I've been wondering why

still sometimes

I believe

we always survive

you think that

maybe it's over

only if you want it to be

that's right.

Are you gonna wait

for the sign?

Your miracle

Are you gonna

stand up and fight?

This is it

make no mistake

where you are

this is it

you've got to

get on now

this is it

don't be a fool

anymore

this is it

the wait is over

nowhere to run

nowhere to hide

no time for wondering why

it's here

the moment is now

Henry?

What are you doing here?

Seeing what you're doing.

I was debating whether to stand outside

and hold a boom box over my head.

This is your room?

Yeah.

Wow.

This is it.

To have Lauren kiss me

just once...

I was wondering if

Lionel would get me laid.

The way I dream of kissing her

would make my life complete.

Yeah.

You ok?

Yeah, I'm just gonna ignore the fact

that I'm shaking.

Lionel's words taught me about love...

loyalty...

desire...

and romance.

I wanna get a shot

of you and mom.

My family taught me

tolerance...

You want me

to take that?

Oh, yeah!

Good, good.

My friends gave me

brotherhood,

and Lauren showed me

what my ideal woman could be.

You ought to follow your own advice.

Did you read your own book?

Mm-hmm. I did.

I wonder sometimes if she's even remotely

like the women I used to imagine her to be

or if I made it all up

in order to stay alone.

Oh, there he goes.

Wake up.

Wino!

Henry needs our support!

Why else would you fall in love with the most

unattainable girl in the entire school...

Oh, God.

...who had the perfect boyfriend?

I love you, Scarlet.

Ultimately, what I learned from my

imaginary relationship with Lauren

was to seize and experience life as it happens...

Henry?

...override my fears and stop dragging around

the unfulfilled dreams of yesterday.

Stay cool.

Ok.

Some nights I lie awake

wondering what ever

happened to Lauren.

Did she marry the jock?

Does she have kids?

Would she even remember

who I was?

Well, now I'm not afraid

of love.

My heart might be

squashed again,

but at least I know

I'll live to write about it.

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