In 2005, David Foster Wallace, a respected author of that time, and one that is still critically acclaimed today after his death through suicide in 2008, gave a commencement speech to the graduating class of Kenyon College, a liberal arts college residing in Ohio. In this speech, Wallace tries to convince this class of adults about to enter the world where they will be full-time employees that even though the reality they will live in may be frustrating an hard to deal with sometimes, there is a better option that being bitter, cynical, and selfish. He proposes brilliantly and effectively through his casual and honest tone, use of the second person, and narratives that by “noticing the water,” or really seeing the world around us for what it
