Congratulations

Once, when I was receiving a degree from a university, I was first up to the stage out of perhaps 100 degree recipients. I reached the Chancellor who handed me the piece of paper, shook my hand, and said “Congratulations, we have been following your career with interest”. “Following my career with interest”, wow, I thought, and headed back to my seat with a spring in my step. As I sat down I could hear the next in line being greeted – “Congratulations, we have been following your career with interest”. And then the next…