I have sat thinking about this question for quite some time, and have gone on a journey choosing, then un-choosing, the words to include in this speech and the message behind them. I concluded that it’s quite simple – rather than trying to preach something (which is outside of my experience and thus out of alignment with my day-to-day self), I would just approach it from the most authentic place possible.

I would say, ‘Thank you for offering your presence to me in this inconceivably precious life that we are both living. I may or may not ever take the curriculum you have offered me, and you may or may not ever take the curriculum I have offered you. But, like a spiders web, our overlap is essential to the whole cosmos. We have forever woven a thread through the fabric of history and thus, eternity. So for that, thank you. It’s an inconceivable blessing to have shared this plane with you.'”