Self-Introduction
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Reflection:
When I did this video, it was fairly easy. Talk about basic information and such. The hard part was recording the video without any background noise. I have three younger siblings, so it's fairly noisy at my house so recording was the hardest part of making this video. Goals: My goal is fairly cliche. It's to live life to the fullest. I want to have a lot of experiences. I want to be able to live different life styles. I'd like to live in different places. There are so many things to do in the world and there is such a small amount of time. I'd like to experience what it's like to be a nomad or what it's like working as a nurse. Everything in this world looks, feels, smells, sounds, tastes different to different people. It all depends on perspective. My goal is to see the world through different pairs of glasses. |
Favorite Speech
My favorite speech was the This I Believe speech because I felt more comfortable with it. I was able to express my beliefs freely and openly. I was hopefully able to inspire other students with the message of my speech and hopefully they adopt that belief as well.
"I believe that everyone in the world should be happy with the way they are. We live in a society where people are constantly judging and being judged. We all have our own personal image that is dictated by others, one that is never truly correct. This is because how I see myself will never be the same as the way someone else sees me. People will laugh at me for being different and they will hate me for succeeding. Society has always tried to make me change, and always will, but if I change I lose. If I change due to the cruelty of the world, I am not changing. I would be deceiving myself and using pretty words to hide it. I am not ashamed of who I am, I am content and happy with myself.
As a kid, I was focused on keeping my self-image. I’d adapt and change according to the way other’s saw me. If someone said I slouched too much, the next day I would fix my posture. If someone said they did not like my clothes, I would change it the following day. I thought that if I did that, no one would hate me. I always got good grades to impress my peers, but instead they called me a know it all. I tried to be nice to others, but they said I was just sucking up. No matter what I did, someone would always judge. Then I met someone, I’ll call him Chris. Chris was kind and he was always happy. I had never heard him complain or speak ill of someone else. He was a role model to me. He was adored by teachers and students alike, but one day, I learned something important.
I had to stay after school for club activities and I was going to hang out with Chris. I heard him talking outside of the class. The words he uttered echoed through the hall. He was mocking me. He went on about how he was using me for homework. He talked about he lied to me all the time, to get me to do what he wanted. They mocked me and made fun of me. They called me a teacher’s pet and that I was a know it all. I was just a joke to them. At that moment, I realized that kindness was a lie.
People always told me to be myself, but they would judge me if I did. No matter who or where I am, people would always have something to say about me. The more I experienced the constant presence of judgement, the more cynical I became. I became what others would call anti-social, a loner. That was because I did not care about my self-image anymore. People with facades have an image to keep, but real people do not care. I am now content with the way I am. I never apologize for saying what I feel because I should not be sorry for being me. If people laugh at me because I am different, I will just laugh at them for being the same. For me, it is better to be hated for what I am, than be loved for what I am not. I am happy with the way I am, even if people hate me. I have very few friends. In fact, I only have two. But those two are 7people who accept my cynical, sarcastic, self.
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"I believe that everyone in the world should be happy with the way they are. We live in a society where people are constantly judging and being judged. We all have our own personal image that is dictated by others, one that is never truly correct. This is because how I see myself will never be the same as the way someone else sees me. People will laugh at me for being different and they will hate me for succeeding. Society has always tried to make me change, and always will, but if I change I lose. If I change due to the cruelty of the world, I am not changing. I would be deceiving myself and using pretty words to hide it. I am not ashamed of who I am, I am content and happy with myself.
As a kid, I was focused on keeping my self-image. I’d adapt and change according to the way other’s saw me. If someone said I slouched too much, the next day I would fix my posture. If someone said they did not like my clothes, I would change it the following day. I thought that if I did that, no one would hate me. I always got good grades to impress my peers, but instead they called me a know it all. I tried to be nice to others, but they said I was just sucking up. No matter what I did, someone would always judge. Then I met someone, I’ll call him Chris. Chris was kind and he was always happy. I had never heard him complain or speak ill of someone else. He was a role model to me. He was adored by teachers and students alike, but one day, I learned something important.
I had to stay after school for club activities and I was going to hang out with Chris. I heard him talking outside of the class. The words he uttered echoed through the hall. He was mocking me. He went on about how he was using me for homework. He talked about he lied to me all the time, to get me to do what he wanted. They mocked me and made fun of me. They called me a teacher’s pet and that I was a know it all. I was just a joke to them. At that moment, I realized that kindness was a lie.
People always told me to be myself, but they would judge me if I did. No matter who or where I am, people would always have something to say about me. The more I experienced the constant presence of judgement, the more cynical I became. I became what others would call anti-social, a loner. That was because I did not care about my self-image anymore. People with facades have an image to keep, but real people do not care. I am now content with the way I am. I never apologize for saying what I feel because I should not be sorry for being me. If people laugh at me because I am different, I will just laugh at them for being the same. For me, it is better to be hated for what I am, than be loved for what I am not. I am happy with the way I am, even if people hate me. I have very few friends. In fact, I only have two. But those two are 7people who accept my cynical, sarcastic, self.
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Reflection: Goals
I feel like I was able to advance in my goal because I was able to experience speaking in front of experts of a speech (during my community issues speech) as well as experiencing giving a speech on the fly in front of an audience, instead of in front of two or three people. How I plan on advancing in my goal is simply experience more. I'll probably try to give more speeches and such, to other people.