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Given a time-turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self

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Given a time-turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self

that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement.

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life,

though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control

and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

You might never fail on the scale I did but some failure in life is inevitable.

It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously

that you might as well not have lived at all,

in which case you fail by default.

We all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure,

but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

One of the many things I learned at the end of that classics corridor,

down which I ventured at the age of 18,

in search of something I could not then define,

was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives.

It expresses in part our inescapable connection with the outside world.

The fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing.

But how much more are you likely to touch other people's lives?

Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work,

the education you have earned and received,

give you unique status and unique responsibilities.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice,

if you choose to identify not only with the powerful but with the powerless,

if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages,

then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence,

thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change.

We do not need magic to transform our world.

We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.

We have the power to imagine better.

Looking back at the 21 year old

that I was at graduation is a slightly uncomfortable experience

that I was at graduation is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become.

Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself

and what those closest of to me expected of me.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever was write novels.

However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college,

took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I know the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil now.

So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree.

I wanted to study English literature.

A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody and I went up to study modern languages.

Hardly had my parents' car round the corner at the end of the road,

then I ditched German and scuttled off down the classics corridor.

I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying classics.

They might well have found out for the first time on graduation day.

Of all the subjects on this planet,

I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology

when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

Now, I would like to make it clear in parenthesis that I do not blame my parents for their point of view.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure?

Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.

I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was

and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Had I really succeeded at anything else,

I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized

and I was still alive and I still had a daughter whom I adored

and I had an old typewriter and a big idea and

so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.

I discovered that I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.

I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks

means that you are ever after secure in your ability to survive.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

Such knowledge is a true gift for all that it is painfully won

and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

I have one last hope for you,

which is something that I already had at 21.

The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life.

They are my children's godparents,

the people to whom I've been able to turn in times of real trouble.

People who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters.

At our graduation, we were bound by enormous affection,

by our shared experience of a time that could never come again,

and of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence

that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.

So today I wish you nothing better than similar friendships.

And tomorrow I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine,

you remember those of Seneca,

another of those old Romans I met

when I fled down the classics corridor in retreat from career ladders in search of ancient wisdom.

As is a tale, so is life.

Not how long it is,

but how good it is, is what matters.

you

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