The Valedictorian Speech that will change your life

good evening class of 2010 before I commence my speech i' would first like to thank uh my family especially my aunt and uncle who came down from California and my grandparents who flew from halfway around the world I would also like to thank my friends and my academic adjudicators without any of you I would not be where I am today thank you because without your help I would not have been given this chance to represent the class with a lengthy speech comprised of Highly personal anecdotes a chance I now plan to take full advantage of

now I realize that some of you do not care for what I'm about to say so I I invited Nathan Turner up here to enhance this experience with some mood setting music some mood setting music you should accommodate your ears so that as you get bored and Zone in and out of listening to my speech all you'll be able to hear is the soothing sound of the guitar okay so to start but I show you the beginning of freshman year I believe this Rubik's Cube is represents our freshman year very well because our freshman year

was a puzzle it wasn't too long ago when the puzzle of entering high school was presented before you and most of us were nervous anxious or scared and questions like how am I going to fit in filled our heads and we became more concerned with what we wore and who we hung out with and less concerned about who has more Pokemon cards I don't know about that one it was a puzzle because just like the Rubik's Cube you can turn it around you just can't turn around in any unplanned Direction otherwise it's just going to

get more mixed mixed up so you have to start matching colors you have to know what's going on where Who's daating Who and by the time freshman year is almost over you've almost you've soled part of your Rubik's Cube but you still have a long way to go now sophomore year was kind of a blur hold on one second okay that works now sophomore year was kind of a blur you now know what's going on in high school but you're still an underclassman so you there's not nothing much going on time passed quickly and everything

was drowned out by the freshman's wine and the upper class's Authority so when we piece all the parts of sophomore year together creates a rather hazy fragmented memory that kind of feels [Music] like and then he just tried crying all over the place so I did what anyone else would do now I was already late and my pants were still not dry so I decided to get [Music] creative and thus we Coast through sophomore year leaving ourselves to wonder what really happened yet we managed to solve more of the Rubik's Cube [Music] and then junior

[Music] year you're finally on over classman and you're now entitled to a lot more power to influence the school you are becoming more of a leader than a follower but you soon realize that you just get much harder from here more AP classes are available the IB program begins coaches rely on you more underclassmen begin to look up to you and you're finally allowed to go to prom it's all fun until you begin to realize what the responsib the responsibility that's been given to you and you have to be careful what you do because any

wrong move can send you back to square one every move you make has to be just right so that the last year in high school will be simple now if you've set it up right senior year wouldn't be as complicated as as your previous three because most of you don't even have a fourth period but there is one thing one important thing that you need to get out of the way before you leave and I think I can best describe this through the words of Lance jabber so imagine that you're a single guy and you

decide that it's time to start thinking about getting married but you're still young you don't want to rush into anything so you spend years trying to find the perfect girl every chance you get you travel all over the country try just to try and meet new people some you like more than others some are too nerdy While others party too much but finally after all your searching you think you find the perfect one oh she's incredible she's fun smart sexy everything you wanted in a woman and you decide to propose but you only get one

shot and you can't screw it up so you spend months agonizing on how you're going to do it what you're going to say to her you set a deadline for yourself so that you can't put it off forever and as the deadline approaches you begin to get nervous are you good enough oh it feels as though everything you've been doing in your life has been leading up to this moment finally the deadline is here y you're so nervous she's way out of your league is the ring big enough how many mistakes have you made so

far is it too late to go back and then it's over you've submitted your proposal and there's nothing more you can do she looks at you and she says um let me get let me get back to you in like four months that's pretty much what applying to college is like and you know what she'll probably say no but guess what you didn't tell her you proposed to a bunch of backup chicks just in case she rejected [Music] you and they're all begging to come near you instead well now that college is just around the

corner all you have to do is just turn those few sides one second and you finally solve your her [Applause] Cube so now it's time to say goodbye to high school and say hello to college so now that we're done with high school it's time to look ahead into the future a few years from now we're going to look back at these high school years and talk about our accomplishments and all the ridiculous things we've had to do we'll all probably laugh about all the stuff we've done and said while we were still in high

school and then just remember you got to just remember as we go on we [Music] remember all the times we had to get together and as our lives change from whatever we will still be friends forever yeah [Applause] the only thing left to say now is congratulations to the West Hall High School class of 2010 and to those who help us get here thank you [Applause]