My Speech

“Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and on behalf of your captain, I would like to welcome you to Flight 2008 of Reality Airways. Destination: Unknown. Estimated time of arrival: To be determined. We ask you to find your seat as quickly as possible. Please make it sure that it is the right place for you, as finding your place is essential. We will be cruising at an altitude determined by the heights of your aspirations, so out of concerns for your self and others, set them high.

“We will give no safety instruction as safety is ultimately your decision. Turbulence will occur through out the duration of the flight. You will experience motion sickness and/ or injuries raging from mild to severe. These problems will have to be attended to at your discretion.

“In the probable event that this plane will crash, flotation devises cannot be found under your seat cushion. It is your decision whether to sink or swim. We are sorry for the inconveniences caused, but unfortunately, this is Reality. Thank you and enjoy the rest of your Life.”

Fellow Graduates: we are the passenger of this plane of Life. We are at the transition point: to layover between leaving our small planes for much larger ones. Soon, we will be searching for our place of Existence, discovering who we want to be and what we want to do. We pray to avoid turbulence, struggle to survive in terms of crashes, and try to fly to the heights of our goals. Our final destinations are as of yet unknown. Along the way, we will crash or we will soar. Now is the time for us to make the real journey that lies ahead. Even though we may not be prepared to make that change, we must, as the future waits for no one.

Fellow Graduates, I encourage you to give your future much though. Remember Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken.” Consider what Frost had to say about his choice:
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

As we ourselves stand here at the “two roads diverging in a yellow wood,” we realized that we have two options. We can take the familiar path, and choose to remain anonymous in the society, or we can take the unfamiliare path, and makie our self to be individuals.

Individualism is a chioce that no bone can make for you; choosing yourself involves your consent. Choosing yourself involves following your dreams and never losing faith in yourself. This may require overcoming many such obstacles, but the end result is worth the struggle.

I encourage you may friends/fellow graduates, not to listen on what others say about you. If some one tells you, “you can’t run that fast,” run faster. If some one tells you, “you can’t jump that high,” jump highier. And if some one tells you, “you aren’t smart enough,” face the test with flying colors. I have the confidence that we are all capable of running faster and jumping highier than any of our peers have before. Dreams can be as big or as small as you want them to, as long as they are yours, and you approach them with sely-assuredly. It is our choice to follow our dreams, and I hope that you will all choose the dreams you want most.

So, Classmates, when we choose what path to take, choose the path that leads to self-discovery. I want to encourage you all to hold fast to your dreams are what make life soar like birds and grow rich like the flower in the spring.

Now go on, get that plane, and grab hold to your dreams!!!.