Trevor+H’s+Final+AmEx+2014+Speech

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Who here truly knows what they want to do in their life? Truly, you have no doubts, no fears, without a doubt you know what you want to do. Honestly I do not know what I want to do, I do not have a goal I strive to reach every day, I haven’t found myself yet, I change every day, everybody changes every day. There is only one thing I truly know is that I want to go travel, it’s something I will do. Most of the people in this class want to travel and experience the world. At least experience a world before they settle down and start a job. High school is almost over; we will be seniors next year. Scary right? I bet most of you are trying to figure out what you want to do outside of high school, go to college (find what college you want to go too)is a big one I feel. That’s is what everybody tells us to do right, go to college, get a high paying job, settle in to a routine of going to work and then going home, maybe going out to a bar once or twice a week, go on a one to two week vacation ever year. I feel like this is how students in this age are expected to act. Get good grades; get a high score on the SAT and ACT. And get into UC Berkeley. That’s what we are told to do. But do all people want to do that? It’s true that college will help you later in life and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t go to college. But how many people want to go straight to a nine to five job after the end of college, again this is the most logical choice and that is what most people choose. For example my cousins just graduated from the University of the Pacific, she got a great job in San Francisco, she is a rep for this company I’m not sure of the name, but she basically finds people who work with software and she hires them for

I’m really jealous of my dad actual, he got to circumnavigate the world, and it took him two years. He did with his dad and couple of friends, and then he got to do it again when he was hired to captain a yacht. He has so many memories that of the trip, from beautiful Italian woman half nude selling ice cream boat to boat, to getting a hair cut in India, to catching giant swordfish off the side of his boat. It was an experience that he has remembered all his life. Lost the steering of his boat in the middle of the night in the middle of the shipping lanes

So I was watching this movie with called endless love with my girlfriend the other day, my girlfriend wanted to watch the movie is because she loved the girls clothes, “they are all from free people” she keep on saying. If anybody in this room has seen the movie, then you know the story line, but I have to tell it to explain my point. It’s about this family that lost their son /brother to cancer, know the dad is a doctor and he took it really hard, since he couldn’t save him no matter how hard he tried, and it blocked his vision about what the rest of his family wanted. He turned out to be ass in the movie. He tried to control his son and daughters life’s, the daughter had her future planned out by the father, she was going to be a doctor and go to brown university just like the son who died was going to. The other brother however, decided to major in communications and to go against his father’s wishes. It took the daughter, the falling in with this guy from her high school that showed her how to truly experience life and not just follow in somebody’s footsteps and to do what you want.

In the America I want to grow old in, I want people to take the world be the throat and to experience what they want, not what other people tell you what you should do, I want an America that is full of dreamers, people who know what they are going to do and get it done, people who find joy in life and no longer feel the need to be depressed or feel insecure. I want America that is full of people who can be themselves, an America full of experienced and well-rounded people.

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