Personal Accomplishment: A Graduation Speech
My fellow seahawks, I want to first congratulate you all for making it to this momentous occasion. Graduating high school, who would’ve thought we'd make it to this day. It seems like just yesterday we arrived to South Lakes. We were little freshmens fighting with the locks on our lockers, trying to figure out where our next class was and generally looking lost and clueless. Now here we are as the upperclassmen, the seniors, ready to graduate and take a hold of our futures. In the beginning, we measured time in class periods which we felt like imprisonment, counting down the periods until eventual freedom. As the weeks passed, we measured it in semester, and later in years. We moved from being those clueless freshmen to the seniors who are
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This graduation has already shown us how capable we all are of accomplishing our goals when we really want it. I hope all of us here today can take this personal accomplishment as an example of how anything is truly possible when we put our minds to it. As we all continue on in our lives, let us take each new problem on with confidence, knowing that we have achieved great heights and are equipped with the necessary tools to tackle our futures. The road that lies ahead will not be easy. There will be obstacles and missed opportunities. There will be times when each of us will feel like we cannot possibly go on or when we feel like we are alone. But you can go on and you are not alone, we are all in this journey together. We have made it this far, why should we back out now? As my mother has told me “nothing worthwhile is ever easy”, and that includes making the most of our futures. From this day forward, let us make each decision with our best interests in mind. Let us believe in ourselves so that we may reach our goals and fulfill our dreams. Let us be the best we can be so that we may fill our lives with happiness and pride. We have already taken the first step by making it to this ceremony today, now, it is time to take the next steps in the journey that is our lives and begin to build our futures. Do you know what an eagle does when a storm is coming? The eagle will fly to high spot, and wait for the winds to arrive. When the
This graduation has already shown us how capable we all are of accomplishing our goals when we really want it. I hope all of us here today can take this personal accomplishment as an example of how anything is truly possible when we put our minds to it. As we all continue on in our lives, let us take each new problem on with confidence, knowing that we have achieved great heights and are equipped with the necessary tools to tackle our futures. The road that lies ahead will not be easy. There will be obstacles and missed opportunities. There will be times when each of us will feel like we cannot possibly go on or when we feel like we are alone. But you can go on and you are not alone, we are all in this journey together. We have made it this far, why should we back out now? As my mother has told me “nothing worthwhile is ever easy”, and that includes making the most of our futures. From this day forward, let us make each decision with our best interests in mind. Let us believe in ourselves so that we may reach our goals and fulfill our dreams. Let us be the best we can be so that we may fill our lives with happiness and pride. We have already taken the first step by making it to this ceremony today, now, it is time to take the next steps in the journey that is our lives and begin to build our futures. Do you know what an eagle does when a storm is coming? The eagle will fly to high spot, and wait for the winds to arrive. When the