Veronica+L’s+Final+AmEx+2013+Speech

=Title of Speech= The Girl Who Farts

=Text of Speech= Hello everyone, my name is Veronica Lopez and I will be talking about something personal that has been occurring during the course of my junior year. Farting. Yes, you heard me, farting. Which quote on quote is “an audible discharge of intestinal gas” and depending on your diet, it can smell pretty bad. For example, my dad said that the foods that make his farts stink are broccoli and cabbage and boy do I know because I am one of the ones that has to smell it. Yet sometimes during the year I didn’t smell some farts at all. I remember when my current boyfriend, Evander, first farted in front of me. We were sitting outside while laughing and then all of a sudden I heard the noise that soon brought a smile on my face. He farted! We had talked about farting in front of each other for a while and he finally did it. It was on accident and he was embarrassed but I didn’t care, he had no reason to be considering I fart all the time too, just like all of you.

Now there are some detrimental things to farting such as farting a little too much that more than expected comes out. There is also the deadly smell it can hold which is problematic in many cases especially when you are trying to eat. But have no fear because there are benefits to farting! You can release all that gas that has been built up throughout the day. And in the case with Evander, we are in a much more comfortable state. Recently he has been telling me if he needs to fart and I even heard it through the phone! Ah, it’s great. Unlike my sister who was dating a guy at the time and laughed too hard while he was tickling her that she farted a nice, big one. Instead of it being acceptable, it was just awkward yet funny.

Same goes with other bodily functions such as sweating, the thing that I don’t know if you can see, but I am doing right now. Look, I sweat a lot. Especially when I am nervous. This year, I took drama, not just because of my love for the arts but so that I would finally not be anxious while presenting. That somehow unfortunately didn’t work. We had to do a presentation which lasted about 3-5 minutes and by the end I was sweating bullets. My hair was damp and I was completely mortified because I knew that the people in the front row could see the sweat which was prominent in my hair and on my face.

Now by this time you might be thinking, “okay, what is the point of these weird, gross stories?”. That is my point. These “weird, gross stories” shouldn’t be weird or gross. Yeah, so what if I am sharing farting and sweating stories? It is not like you have never farted or sweated in your life. The point is that these stories should not be hidden because they are just events of natural bodily functions.

In the America I grow old in, I want to see people not ashamed of what their bodies do because it is simply operating.

I want to be able to simply walk down the hallways and fart if I need to. I want to be able to fart out loud in class and have people not stare. I want to sweat freely and not be ashamed of what is happening because my body just overheats quickly. I want to live freely in my body with others.

I want to see more fungi, smell more farts, touch more pimples, observe more dandruff, and feel more sweat. I want people to be able to not judge one another just because of a bodily function or experience. If you are close by and need to desperately fart, come by me and I won’t care at all. If I can, I will join! But don’t do it just because you want to be rude and mock this whole speech, come because you want and need to.

Don’t hold anything back, literally. I know some people whose stomachs hurt because they hold in a fart for too long. So please, be comfortable not only with others but your own body. Thank you.

=Cite Your Sources= http://www.thefreedictionary.com/farting http://www.kidzworld.com/article/473-the-science-of-farting