Get stories worth sharing delivered to your inbox.

Here at Upworthy, we make it a mission to find things on the Internet that have real meaning — things that take you out of the tempting narrow focus of your own existence and give you some perspective about your neighborhood, your community, and your world. This speech, delivered at Kenyon College way back in…

Alvin Melathe

Sep 20, 2013

https://player.vimeo.com/video/68855377

UPDATE: So, the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust has decided to take this video down, claiming copyright infringement. While I’ve found another link for the time being, I’m not entirely sure how long it’ll be up. If you think this video has an important message that serves a real public interest and shouldn’t be taken down, please sign and share this petition. Thanks.

Add to Google News

More for You

boomer grandparents, boomer grandparent, millennial parents, millennial parent, grandkids

Family

Millennial parents are pleading with Boomer grandparents to stop giving excessive gifts to grandkids

danny boy, danny boy song, retirement home, abbey neves, singing danny boy

Wholesome

Nursing home resident asks singer to play ‘Danny Boy’ one more time for a touching reason

Generations

Why ‘microgenerations’ like Gen Jones, Xennial, Zillennial, and Gen Zalpha actually make sense

Culture

How the Sears catalog thwarted Jim Crow laws and empowered the civil rights movement

kittens, cats, animals, hospital, eye infection

Wholesome

Mama cat rushed her kittens to a human hospital. Doctors treated them as patients.

Get stories worth sharing delivered to your inbox.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.

Email *

By subscribing, you accept beehiiv's Terms of Use & Privacy Policy. Our site's Privacy Policy applies.

Featured

All Featured Stories →

conflict, arguments, disagreements, conflict management, psychology, human behavior, anger, therapists

Science

Conflict experts share the 1 phrase to stop an argument before things get out of control

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff

puppy, new dog, dog, gold, coins, treasure

Pets

Adopted puppy takes first walk with new family and digs up treasure worth nearly $8,000

Heather Wake & Upworthy Staff

side hustles, side hustle, side gigs, side hustle ideas, side gig ideas, high paying side gigs, best side gigs

Life Hacks

24 brilliantly attainable ideas for side jobs that can make you an extra $2,000 a month

Heather Wake & Upworthy Staff

Family

Nearly 40% of Americans went no-contact with a loved one last year. Here’s why we’re letting relationships go.

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff

At Upworthy, we make the best in humanity more visible so it becomes more possible. Together with our community, creators, and partners, we create stories, ideas, and experiences that change how people see themselves and the world, and inspire them to add more good to it.

Company

Topics

Instagram
LinkedIn
Facebook
TikTok
YouTube

The Earth-Shatteringly Amazing Speech That’ll Change The Way You Think About Adulthood

Tags

More for You

Millennial parents are pleading with Boomer grandparents to stop giving excessive gifts to grandkids

Nursing home resident asks singer to play ‘Danny Boy’ one more time for a touching reason

Why ‘microgenerations’ like Gen Jones, Xennial, Zillennial, and Gen Zalpha actually make sense

How the Sears catalog thwarted Jim Crow laws and empowered the civil rights movement

Mama cat rushed her kittens to a human hospital. Doctors treated them as patients.

Get stories worth sharing delivered to your inbox.

Featured

Conflict experts share the 1 phrase to stop an argument before things get out of control

Adopted puppy takes first walk with new family and digs up treasure worth nearly $8,000

24 brilliantly attainable ideas for side jobs that can make you an extra $2,000 a month

Nearly 40% of Americans went no-contact with a loved one last year. Here’s why we’re letting relationships go.