If
I were to be told to present to you a speech on how necessary making Hampton
High School a better place is crucial, I would decline in the nicest way
possible. Why? I would decline because you wouldn’t listen to me. You would
probably do one of the following: talk, text, call me every name in the book or
even “boo” me. All the while watching my lips move but not have the ability to
comprehend what flows from them. But I wouldn’t knock you for doing the
previously listed because you’ve done it to me but I wouldn’t knock you for it because
I understand why you do it to me. You do it to our teachers. So, why wouldn’t
you do it to me? It isn’t like you would have more respect for me than you do
for them, right? All I would do is bore you. I would stand up and deliver, too
few of you, what would be known as the most deliberate speech you’ve ever heard
from me. But to the majority of you, it would be like any other speech; a waste
of time and pointless. In which both of those adjectives have been used, by
some, to describe school.
So, I have decided to start my speech off
with an attention seeker. A point that will really get under your skin and
bother you because I know you. I know that sometimes you have to add another
flame to a gigantic fire. I know that you know that you don’t know everything.
I know that you will never change. I know because I have attended the same
school as you since the 3rd grade. And for eight years, I’ve
witnessed your reactions to authority and school. So now I have put myself in
your shoes. In fact, if I were to be delivering a speech to you, I would tell
you that we all have to become one functioning system, we all need to inherit
respect and we all need to put ourselves first in order to make Hampton High
School an even better place. I would then go on to elaborate on my key points.
Like, we all have to work together. This consist of us learning how to respect
ourselves and others properly, putting ourselves first, and taking the
precautions necessary for teamwork. Work
as a team. Not only seek guidance for yourself but guide others to the light as
well. Become one accord with each other. Establish trust amongst everyone. Grow
together. Establish new tradition. Then I would throw in a fancy quote, like,
“Treat others how you would like to be treated.” Followed by: Respect everyone. This includes yourself and
others. Maybe I would even get around to explaining how I am not contradicting
myself by talking about teamwork and then getting into putting ourselves first.
For instance, I would say, put yourself first. Know yourself. Try your best.
Then I would give you a quote like, “Stand up for what you believe in even if
you stand alone.” But then after all of
that, I would conclude my speech, with a paragraph, by summing up everything I
just covered in less than a paragraph. That’s when you would look at me and
clap because it’s the polite thing to do. Even though you heard nothing I said,
you knew nothing about anything I said, nor do you care about anything I said.
But
I wouldn’t deliver this speech to you or any speech of that matter because it
has all been told to you before. You just have yet to apply it. But who’s to
say you really know how?
