I'm going to be approaching this from a bit of a different perspective because I didn't really enjoy high school as much as most. I don't really know of anything to say, so I just decided to talk about a general thought I had. Though the message is pretty cliche, I am not trying to give anyone advice but rather attempting to provoke some thought. Now that we are through with high school we are just going to continue taking more serious steps toward developing our distant future. It seems that we spend all these days and years of our lives going to school and working all the time in order to be able to find happiness in that future, when none of us have any knowledge of such a future ever coming. Society has us all running a race to retirement, going in circles for the majority of our lives, when in reality all of this work and time we spend living by this system is for nothing more than paper of some kind. Just paper and some idea and hope for the future which may not exist at all. I drive almost daily. Who's to say that I won't be killed in a car accident tomorrow? Or, what if you were to go to some race and, as Dane Cook has said, a flying tire hunted you down and hit you in the face? What then? The future we work so hard for could be nothing more than the dream it is now. Why spend all your time focusing on a future we may never have? Don't get me wrong, I believe it is very important and necessary to keep the future in mind, but it is just as important if not moreso to live for today as well. Now is all we know we have, and it is different with every passing moment. There are absolutely no guarantees for any of us, no matter what grade, status or paycheck you earn, so shouldn't we work and do our best for a good happy life now? I don't think money and status are all they are cracked up to be, and are really just society's way of giving us reason to conform to the system. Yes, we do need money but don't forget the things that posess actual meaning in your life, the things that bring actual happiness. Don't put family and real friends aside for your future. They are probably the best future we have. Take notice of or don't forget all the simple beauty that's always around. Getting too caught up in this normal routine will take that away. The fun that the freedom of summer brings, the smell in the air just before it rains, the perfect evening cruise with a friend with no particular place to go, the awesome excitement after seeing a shooting star, the unbeatable feeling of loving and being loved, simple things like these that vary from each individual to another that you could go on and on naming are the important ones. These are your now and will always be. They are your happiness. They are your life, they are you. Being valedictorian is just another status to get people to work harder within the system, and though sure, it is something to be proud of, it is not that important to me. What I have learned about myself, others and life, and maybe even some of the scholastic stuff that I actually remember is what is real and important. So though this speech is just a thought, not advice, it doesn't hurt to keep an open mind about these and all ideas actually. Use them to maybe form or further your own thoughts and never stop thinking. I do wish us all good and happy distant futures, but more that we can live for a good and happy now always.
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Created on 1-20-08
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