Speech

I’m working hard not to forget a single name I hear this year. Each student, every teacher; any name that I come to know. Like a fleeting dream, we will separate and although some of us will keep close, others we may never see again. There is a specific reason that I am working my memory. It is because I know that we are going to go far in this world. Each word spoken, each action taken has a massive impact on everyone. I see actors and actresses on Broadway, doctors finding cures and scientists finding elements. I see mathematicians cracking ancient codes, singers pouring out their voices, authors making millions. I see their achievements in the papers; successes that will shake this earth and make people open their eyes. Above all I see wonderful people who, with the right amount of effort, will skip the farthest along, like a pebble on our small pond of a world. I will be able to smile because they are my friends. They made me who I am and helped me be what I will become. The ripples they will create can affect the whole pond and everything in it.1

Then, there are the wondrous advisors, the people with tolerance that exceeds average. We call them teachers, but they do more than teach from textbooks. They take our minds and shape them with their bare hands; they take our heads and turn them to see what’s going on. They pry our voices from the space we hide them in, and let the words and opinions flow like a waterfall after a storm. Only when the year is done do we see that we’ve made friends who smile warmly and give us a push in the back to run that extra mile, go the extra mile. They show tactics that we’ve overlooked for years and suddenly, it all clicks, that these are not just passing strangers. These are the cornerstones of our life that keep us going, keep us learning. They are the stings of the web that trap knowledge and feed it to our hungry minds. These are the people who we cannot forget and who, at the end of the day, we thank for the things we can achieve.2

Whatever lies ahead of us, we’ll be ready. High School, college; it may not seem as important now, but thank your friends and your teachers while you can. Soon enough you will look back and know that it was because of their passion for teaching and your willingness to learn, your patience and their smiles that guided you through life, it was them who threw you some of the farthest distances to reach the other end of the biggest pond we’ll ever know.3

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This is the speec h i wrote for school, graduating from 8th grade. i hope I get chosen!