This isn’t the typical graduation for 2020 seniors this year, so I wanted to give graduating students a commencement speech that matched the moment.

2020 graduates may feel like they’re being robbed of everything that makes their last year of school memorable – prom, parties, graduation with their friends. But students graduating from school this year are being gifted something that many previous graduates did not receive: perspective.

And that perspective will mean something throughout their lives, and give them strength, resilience, and fortitude.