A/N This is a speach that I wrote to the classes below me at the end of this year at school. Yes it may be more about school but it has a good point. This is completely my own speech and I would appriciate it if nobody would copy it and use it as their own. It took me about a week to write and I had to read it in front of about 300 people and it was difficult. I hope you learn something :)
How can I be perfect? Thats a question I used to ask myself almost everyday of my life...until I learned that nobody can ever in the existence of man be perfect. Its really hard to become close to what some consider “perfect” when you feel pressured into being someone you’re not. I was once there where you are, sitting, not really caring about anything at all. In sixth grade my grades weren’t particularly the best, but I still didn’t fail any of my classes, in fact I was barely passing most of them. That was the beginning of a far downward spiral along with a huge ditch that I had dug myself into. Luckily I passed the year, not with flying colors but my best grade was probably a three. I wanted more than anything to prove that I could be even greater than all my classmates, I thought of it as a race. That race I didn’t get first place, but I wasn’t last either.
You could say that I was just slacking off and not doing my work; to be honest I didn’t care what my grades were toward the end of the year. I just messed around and started to become influenced by not the best people. I ended my sixth grade year pretty well but it was seventh grade that got me the most. At the beginning of my seventh grade year I came in with a really bad attitude, and it didn’t go so well. My grades were okay until the middle of the year, thats when all the problems started. I got into a fight and was suspended for three days, and my grades went downhill from there. I had to admit I wasn’t the best kid in school, because after that fight I took part in many other things that broke the rules. I ended up being suspended twice, and having about three detentions. Trust me spending three days in iss isn’t the funnest thing to do.
After that second suspension I knew that I had to get my stuff together. Luckily with a little bit of help I took care of myself, got my grades back up, and started making choices that would help both me and the people around me. I still feel really bad about myself for doing the things that I did when I was younger, but I can’t change the fact that I did those bad things. What’s done is done, and that’s why you should learn from my mistakes and not follow the old me, because I used to run into walls, and it hurt.
Now I’m doing much better than I did back then. I’ve been in basketball and volleyball. My grades are way better, I’ve been able to attend every breakfast of champions (great grade award thing) that has been offered so far this year. All around I’m doing better, with grades, people, and rules. I enjoy the spot I’m in right now, but even if you ask my teachers I’m not the best student in the world but I give good efforts and try my hardest to be completely self directed. There will always be room for improvements, but still nobody is perfect. Thats why you should just try to be a better you, and not be influenced into something that you’re not.
