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 * Title of Speech **
 * People are boring **


 * Text of Speech **

Good morning, afternoon, evening, or whenever you are viewing this my fellow American Experience students, or maybe this video will be the last remaining artifact of human civilization and is being viewed by an alien civilization that has transcended the concept of time, and if so there are much better things that could have been saved. As you can probably tell, I’m writing this without a topic in mind. But now, through the magic of coming back to things, I want to say I have a topic and it has been a wonderful year with each and everyone of you. I love each and every one of you, and we have all felt a whole range of emotions. I have laughed and cried with all of you. We have all memorized countless historical facts and wrote what seemed like thousands of essays. So now that I have reminisced, I am going to proceed to insult humanity at large.

 People are boring. I know what you’re thinking, Hey I’m a person, and I am the most interesting thing in the world. Well yes, our main interest is always ourselves, but what I mean is maybe not all of the people in this room, but I have noticed people of all ages both inside and outside the walls of foothill who just don’t care about anything. When asked of interests or just thinks they like to do, In my experience the most common answer from a teenager I receive is “netflix.” Not movies, in fact I doubt many of these people know the first thing about film, simply netflix. The second most common is “I don’t know.”What happened? Or has it always been like this? I think so, because I see just as many if not more adults who are living out their adult lives as passionless zombies, worshipping the metal box in their living room in unhappy careers, marriages, and overall lives.

So this is my message to you. Find something that you love. Truly love. Something you could talk about for hours with someone else, a topic much more interesting to YOU than your test scores and how stressed you are about finals, a topic of conversation that is very frequent at Foothill. It doesn’t matter what it is-a lifestyle you identify with, a stance you firmly believe in, a hobby or interest that you spend a lot of time in.. Also, don’t just have something like this for the sake of seeming interesting, I encourage all of you to broaden your horizons, try new things, open your mind, learn new things and find new concepts, ideas, and activities you never gave much thought about. Often, they’ll be the only thing you keep with you as you walk down the road of life. The way I see it, our individuality is something that we should hold sacred and we have to, as corny as it sounds, find ourselves.

Take this with you into the future, pursue your passion, not what you think will have physical rewards. You all took AP History and English, but how many of you actually cared past the potential college credit and the slight bump in the holy number we call the GPA, on your lifetime achievement, your high school transcript that your dream college is going to look over and decide what you think will make or break your entire existence. How much do we really remember now that the AP test is over? We remember what interests us. I love history, but the only thing I remember about the mid-19th century reform movements is that people unironically complimented a woman by giving her the nickname Dragon Dix, and the only thing I remember about transcendentalism is that Walt Whitman’s beautiful poetry was actually quite perverted. My point is you will only remember and care about the things you want to, so pursue something that truly sparks your interest, and don’t let anyone hold you back because of economic or social implications that your actions might have, just keep it legal. In the America I want to grow old in, I want to see more people with something that they love, something they’re truly passionate about, so in 30 years we are not sleepwalking through life, but we’re continuing to grow ourselves and understand the world around us.


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