Graduation Speech On Graduation

I think that is what we are doing here today. By sharing our stories, by reflecting on our past, by expressing our hopes for a brighter tomorrow, we are engaging in the process of personal development.

No matter which route we choose to take or how we decide to live our lives, we are all capable of leading our lives to their maximum potential. I think, that’s why when we know an action is unusual for us to do, we often find ourselves compelled to do it. Life is a journey that is greater than its destination. It is magnificently beautiful to know that no two people are ever going to live the same life. Seven billion people experienced yesterday differently, than how you did. However, no matter how unprepared we are, we have to believe that we will end stronger than how we began. There is something inside of us that is larger than all of us. There is life inside everyone and everything, from a light bulb to a human

Good afternoon [name of members of the head table], teachers, parents, students, fellow graduates and distinguished guests. I must first and foremost thank God for this blessing and honor to stand before you today as Valedictorian of the Class of 2011. Yet, today is not only my day to shine. Every graduate present here is deserving of high praise and recognition and I would like to congratulate each of you on reaching this milestone in life. I think I speak for my fellow graduates when I say that this is a moment we have always imagined and one we will remember for the rest of our lives.

Walking through life admiring everything it brings upon you, can bring upon many question about life and what you are meant to be. You can begin questioning yourself and who you are. What your future would look like and how would you get there. All these question are things that cross our minds at one point in our lives. A reason this happens is because of everything we go through and experience in life that makes us want to know and understand who we are as a person. Like Gandhi once said, “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”(Gandhi, Mahatma). This wise words said by Gandhi

The person you are today, is simply result of external interactions. Every decision or event that mentally or physically influences you, influences who you are to become. I find it healthy to occasionally, sit back in the mixt of our crazy gadget obsessed, overly crowded, busy life styles, and contemplate the decisions and obstacles, (both good and bad), that brought me to where I am today. Although, I have a very positive outlook on life, there are certainly things that I wish I could change.

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Once again, I must reiterate the importance of this prodigious achievement for us to be graduating from middle school, One of the key steps in your academic success. Today – right here on this stage you will witness us receiving something that is a representation of all our hard work and diligence we’ve vested within our education over the past three years. Now it is time to flip the page and begin another fulfilling and interesting chapter of our lives – High School. I think some of the most momentous events in a student’s life is none other than graduations. And since it is the end of this stage in our education, it brings us a mixture of joy and pain. Joy for reaching our goals, and pain for saying goodbye to the people who became a part of our lives and helped us succeed here at HMS.

Too often we get bogged down in our past, and in memories of events that we think define us and restrict us from moving forward. The truth is that we can decide today who we want to be. We may have some baggage, and we may have future dreams, but today is the only day where we can define who we are and what direction we want our lives to go.

Can you still remember our first days in kindergarten? When our parents dropped us off and left us in the classroom? Do you remember who cried and clung onto our parent’s pants, not wanting to let go? I did. Innocent, dependent, and immature as we were, we thought we couldn’t survive a day without our parents by our side. We did not understand why you have to leave and rush to work or get back home to attend to other siblings and household chores. With each passing day we became familiar with the school life, we were drawn to our new friends, engaged in new learnings and experiences, and we became independent, yet at the end of the day, rain or shine, we found you on the school’s doorsteps with open arms to welcome us. You are always there for us. You faced the tasks of rearing us seem so

Everyday we grow as people and everyday is different. No two days a alike in any way. Also everyday is different for each individual person. We don’t experience the same things in the same ways, because we are all different. What we value today might change tomorrow, and it would definitely change in the next twenty years. As we go through life we are constantly trying to grow and develop as people. In the future, we might have families to take care of , or businesses to run. Therefore it would be wrong to say that what we value today in our lives will be the same in the future. As we grow older, we grow different as people. What it means to be a person is different for everyone, and as we go through life we find out more and more about ourselves. We will end up finding things we never knew we care about, or things that we didn’t notice before. We are constantly developing as people and we change what that means

Change is inevitable and constant, even if we believe that at this moment we are finally the person we will be for the rest of our lives. As we embarked on this journey a few short months ago, how could we possibly know the changes that would occur in our everyday reasoning and thinking? These changes are not just isolated to the last few months; I personally have seen an unexpected growth in myself over the past couple of years. These changes are more evident in the capacities covered in this self-evaluation.

Since becoming a high schooler, I’ve been able to visit Europe and make attempts to try and speak new languages with strangers. Ive been able to engage in debates and support my opinions and beliefs. I’ve been able to join more programs and have faith in myself… This time a few years ago I would've never been able to accept who i am.

Purpose Statement: Since the majority of us are seniors, and graduation is a little less than a month away, I am going to provide you with some historical background information and some fun facts about graduation in order to make the occasion even more meaningful than it already is.

Graduation is an exciting time in a person’s life, especially a high school graduation. When I think of family and friends gathering together to celebrate a joyous occasion, I feel I accomplished my strongest goal. It never occurred to me that graduation would be the end of my youth and the start of adulthood. Graduating from high school was an influential event that gave me an altered outlook on my existence. Life before graduation, preparing for graduation day, and commencement day overwhelmed me for reality.

English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.