Emma+T’s+Final+AmEx+Speech+2016

Friends and Family

When trying to figure out what to write my final speech on, I found it hard to find a subject, as expressed by most of the people in apush. It started off with how we should have naps everyday, because...well you all clearly know why. But I fell asleep in the middle of writing it. I went through topic after topic such as, assholes, being a dictator, adults and how they should stop acting like children and grow up, and even one about Lucy’s dad, Bob, and how great he is, but they all came out to be dead ends, with only half a page written for each topic. I was at a negative spectrum of the scale about how horrible America was. I was stuck thinking about how frustrating things were around me, and ways we could change them. That’s when I thought about how I should be looking at all of the amazing things that have happened in America, and everything about our society that is wonderful. Because every time anyone asks me what time period I would like to live in, I always think about how life is now and about how happy I am right now. Because I would like to grow up in an America where nothing has to dramatically change. To help envision this idea, I have decided to share some memories with you. I love spending time with all of my friends and reflecting back on a lot of time spent with Taylor Snell and receiving trash to carry around or throw away. She also gives you extra food, that she brings from her house, giving you a perfect ratio of trash to food. I love Natasha Urban and listening to her, tell us who we should be hating at the moment. Laughing with Laina about how much she thinks the snapchat filters are so funny even when they aren’t, and playing long hours of Rayman, because of some level that plays a song to your characters actions, which we spent hours trying to get it right to show her dad, which we failed at epicly. Ellena Thomas and me spent hours making me shit my pants because we watch some ghost sightings in her crazy Japanese show. And then after having to watch with her, she sits outside the bathroom in a closet waiting for me, with her mask, watching for the perfect moment to attack. Walking for about three minutes up a hill with Isaac, as he pets apples, and obsesses about some dumb plant that is going to fall over and kill someone, someday. Spending a whole summer, making bread and going to Washington with Lucy, which involved kayaking, watching movies, and pouring water on each other for no apparent reason. Being a superhero freak with Zoie Moilanen and watching all of the new movies that come out, with her. Josh let me walk his dog during lunch one day just because I ask, and I’m pretty sure he thinks I’m strange still. Clare told her mom and me about how she is going to lease me out to people, like I’m some kind of classy prostitute. I once complimented my friends on their boobs at a sleepover cause the honestly was spilling out at 3am in the morning due to lack of sleep. Some of my wonderful memories that I would like to share are ones about my family as well. Nathan, my brother, who drives me early in the morning and shares all of his crazy dreams about saving the world with our cat, and another one about him being pregnant. All of Anna’s dumb “I was drunk” stories, which involve her running down an alley to catch another dunk friend, which in the end aren’t even that funny to hear. Ethan texts me, “if I know what the plans are for dinner”. Then replying “lol” when I say “I don’t know”. Me and Iva dressed our poor cat up in stuff animal clothes so she wouldn’t move, just so we could film a commercial for history. Playing egg russian roulette with Guadalupe, and getting egg yolk all over ourselves and the room. My mother is blind in the darkness and I was guiding her in the dark, back to the car, and out of the silences she says “you’re guiding me to the car, and then I’m going to be driving you home.” My dad was copying a song I had sung about 5 minutes before, in Trader Joe’s and some lady heard him and joined in singing “sunshine and lollipops and rainbows everywhere, its beautiful, its magical.” There are many more memories I could tell you, but I think you get the point. Now these are all great memories, but I’m sure you’re all wondering, “Emma none of those things, have to do about society and how great it is.” That is because I scrapped that idea, after thinking about all of those memories. I want to live in an America where family and friends are our greatest treasures. Because laughing and smiling seem to always occur around those we love. And even if we have bad memories and times with our love ones, somehow we always keep smiling, even if it takes a day, a week, a month, or even a year. Have you ever seen a romantic comedy where the boy and the girl doesn’t end up happy and in love at the end. Cause these people around us are the most important things we have. We need to get our heads out of our books and computers to send more time with friends and family, or how else will they become our most important treasures. So stop being alone in your room and carve away many hours of being alongside those who love you. Thank you.