Stuck in a time warp- HS GRAD
The last two weeks have been, well, downright strange. And very, very amusing. To explain, I've been doing sound work for the majority of the high schools in my county. And several outside it.
A bit of background first, I graduated several years ago and never looked back. I didn't really pay attention to much that was said during my own graduation, which perhaps is why much of what I've heard over the last fornight has been so humorous.
By and large, the majority of what gets said is the usual drivel that comes with a lack of age. And maturity. The same 2 things I know I lacked at that age. But none the less, it's obvious these kids believe themselves to be at the pinicle of their life. After all, what more is there that they don't already understad? What could be out there that they haven't experienced in their 18 years? And why not? Often times an overbearing Principal makes sure to reiterate this multiple times during the ceremony. Apparently the educators don't hold much hope for their kids, if this is as good as it gets.
My favorite quote of day:
Quote:
"I know we'll never forget the good times we had at grad night. We'll never forget our senior year...We'll never forget the friends we had...because I know that the education that we recieved from ****** will allow us to achieve all of our goals and lead this country in the right direction!
:wtf:
This speech happened to be better than most, but maybe thats due to the fact that the it fell into catagory #2...to explain, after countless speeches invaded my ear drums, I realized they almost always fell into two catagories:
1) The POMPUS Validictorian/Saluditorian who requires 10 mintues to explain how god himself steered his/her every action leading up to this moment. This actually has little to do with religion and is actually nothing but a chance for this cocksure youth to verbally blow themself infront of their peers and parents.
2) The "INSPIRATIONAL" speaker who quotes many famous people, but untimetely reveals they understand little of the world around them
Ah, just wait until they get to college. High what? :rastasmoke:
Stuck in a time warp- HS GRAD
i actually graduated valedictorian from my HS, and i absolutely HATED writing and giving my speech. i didn't want to get up there and bore people with 10 minutes of intellectual and inspirational bullshit, so i actually wrote my original speech about the ONLY thing that i was an expert on...myself.
but this original speech ended up getting censored and shot down by the principal because i mentioned how i exceeded the lethal dosage of a certain drug when i was 16 and somehow survived the suicide attempt but was glad i did because it gave me a different perspective on life. i wanted to talk about something different in my valed speech, and that sure woulda shocked the crowd all right.
but like i said, the principal made me rewrite a new speech, he made me write a more "conventonal" speech with all the bullshit you mentioned, and i was PISSED. so i was actually sitting in my chair at the graduation ceremony scribbling shit on a piece of notebook paper, writing my speech right there.
for my "famous quotes" i used incubus and the beatles. i based my speech around the incubus lyric "the ride's over, did you enjoy yourself?" and the beatles lyric "and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" and as i look back on it now, it wasn't that bad, my speech was about living your life the way you fuckin' want to, not lettin' anybody tell you how to live it because my parents always tried to crimp me and i always held that against 'em, about being active not passive in life, about trying everything once before passing judgment instead of letting other people live your life.
but as i look back on it, seriously wtf did i know at that stage in life? nothing. what right did i have to get up there on that stage and bullshit for 5-10 minutes about what i thought was important? they should change it so that freshmen and sophomores in college come back to deliver speeches at high school graduations, people who have actually lived and experienced and can give real advice.
