I am not a very good speaker. This is a well known fact at my high school. You could even ask my freshman speech teacher, and he would tell you that I have could content but my delivery is terrible. It is for this fact that I felt at my best when I gave a speech at my graduation ceremony in May of this year. I could have chosen an academic or athletic accomplishment as a time that I felt like my best, but when I gave that speech I felt like a million bucks.

Leading up to my speech I was a nervous wreck. The fact that the gymnasium that the ceremony was being held in was extremely hot didn’t really help matters either. Some people would be appalled by the amount of preparation that I put into my speech. On the other hand though, I think that some people were just amazed that I managed to write out my speech ahead of time. Like I said I am a terrible public speaker, but I am also a huge procrastinator. So when I got up on that stage all I had was my written out speech and a couple of hundred people in front of me. I walked up to the podium and I realized that I forgot to practice my speech beforehand. This thought made me even more nervous. The time had now come though.

When I started speaking everything just started to come out. I felt on top of the world, I was thinking I know the people I am talking about, this is easy. In the end, I was told that I gave one of the best speeches at the ceremony. I felt like I was on top of the world. I think that I can translate this into my college transition by telling myself that even if I don’t want to do something I can still succeed and have fun doing it. I will use this experience to make myself try new things even if they are outside of my comfort zone.

Giving this big speech was one of the highlights of my senior year of high school. I think that it represents me a lot by showing how much that I progressed as a person throughout my high school years. I hope that I will keep this speech in mind throughout my college career and beyond so I can be a better person for it. I hope that everyone can at sometime feel as good as I felt after I finished giving that speech.