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Investigate TV. Open 4 Business. Call For Action. Submit Your Photos and Videos. Creative Marketing. Nikki Haley to return to South Carolina for Clemson graduation. By Staff. Published: Apr. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. Share on Twitter.

Share on Pinterest. Share on LinkedIn. Most Read. Car in Georgia Amber Alert found, but toddler still missing. Dozens sue Augusta plant, alleging exposure to cancer-causing gas. Augusta Tech offering tuition-free training for high-demand jobs. Latest News. Showers tonight, drier and cooler weekend. And the thing is, today, Michael never complains about his childhood.

He knows it could've turned out much worse. He is grateful. And more than that, he has taken the gift he was given, of loving and supportive parents, and he's paid that gift forward to our children.

Having a good dad is something to be grateful for, but being a good dad is real gratitude. My parents are also good examples of active gratitude.

They came to South Carolina in the early s from India. My dad wears a turban, my mom wore a sari. You could say they looked a bit different from small-town Bamberg, South Carolina, and they got their share of uncomfortable looks and even experienced episodes of outright discrimination.

But they also watched South Carolina change, and come to not just accept them, but to embrace them. They found opportunity here, and they found a home here, and they never let my brothers and sister and I forget how blessed we were to be growing up in this country. They didn't focus on the challenges that they had had, but they focused on the blessings that they received. When I was a little girl, I could never have dreamed that I would be a governor, or an ambassador, or now, an honorary doctor.

But guess what — I think my mom and dad did. Their American experience hasn't been perfect, but they understood that I had opportunities here that I wouldn't have had in any other country. They made sure I understood that, and they paid it forward. So here comes my little bit of unsolicited advice. These are a couple of tips to living a life of active gratitude. First, beware of social media. It's almost as if it was invented to destroy gratitude. Everyone presents their most carefully-edited lives on Twitter or Instagram.

We all do it, right? Posting the best pictures of the most exciting places we go and the most interesting things that we see. But our social media lives aren't the real world. Real life is usually messier. And whether we mean to do it or not, the fake lives we live on social media can evoke a kind of envy that is a lack of gratitude that is very damaging.

On social media, the grass is always greener on someone else's page, but this is a recipe for dissatisfaction with life. It makes us obsess about the stuff we don't have, rather than to be thankful about what we do. And all for what? So we can spend our lives unhappy, chasing an ideal that doesn't exist?

As a country, we're experiencing something of a gratitude crisis today, and it's not just on social media. Instead of feeling grateful, too many Americans are feeling entitled. We take for granted the many, many blessings that we have.

We feel entitled to be free, to speak our minds, and to not have our feelings hurt, but these things are gifts, not guarantees. Just ask the three Americans recently released from a North Korean prison.

And now, my second piece of advice on how to live a life of active gratitude. Be thankful to be alive in America in Every day at the United Nations, I deal with countries where people are not free, people where there is no respect for the inherent dignity of women or people of different races or faiths, places where the rule of law is nonexistent. Without exception, these are dark, dangerous, unpleasant places. They are countries where governments commit genocide, places where dictators use the torture of children and the rape of women as political weapons.

It's not that the United States is perfect — we're not — but we have been given a great set of tools — freedom, the rule of law, and respect for human rights — with which we can create a more perfect union. Don't take these things for granted. Be grateful for them, preserve them, and use them to make a better life for yourself and your family, but also, for the poor, for the less fortunate, and for generations to come.

So congratulations on graduating from Clemson University. Yes, you will miss the football games, but you will love even more when you come back to visit. You should be hopeful. There is very little you can't achieve in life if you really put your mind to it. I'm proof of that. And you should be grateful, not just because you have been given so much, but because you have so much to give. Enjoy your special day. Thank you again for this honor.

I wish you all the very best in the real world ahead. God bless. Thank you, President Clements. Thank you to the board. All Speakers Speeches Political ads. Attorney General U. Cabinet Member U. First Lady U. Representative U. Second Lady U. Secretary of Commerce U. Secretary of Education U. Secretary of Energy U. Secretary of Health and Human Services U.