Speech

So for this class I'm in, Retorics, I had to write a speech...

I thought it might be fun to share that here:



Who am I, who am I to stand here...
To stand here and tell you who to be?

Who am I, to come here?
And preach off ways to live your life?

Who am I?
That is the question.
The question we should all be asking ourselves.

Who am I and what do I believe?
I am Katla, but I am also a believer. I believe foremost in me.
For to be, truly in the essence of what it means to be me, is my only way to be.

So who are you? And who is he?
What do you all believe in, what do you all stand for? What do you all strive for in life?

The answer is you don’t know, or do you?
Maybe you just don’t care..

Hellen Keller once said: I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble”

It may be hard for us, a generation of individualism, and with that a generation of ego. To imagine such a humble approach to what it means to achieve.
Because how many of us long to accomplish anything, that is in the least bit noble.

I stand here, not to tell you, you are all wrong.
No I stand here to tell you, we simply do not care.

We do not care, not enough, about our world.
We do not care, not enough, about our people.
We do not care, not enough, about our education.

No not enough do we care, because we simply take all luxury for granted.
There was a time once, when idealists still ruled the world. I do not know when that time was, because I was not there to see it.
But I know, there was a time, because that time lives on through history, literature, art.

I could collect up to a thousand quotes stating what those idealists believed.

There where those that fought for the rights of their people; African-Americans, Women, gays.
They all fought for something they believed in. They all stood up and spoke of what they believed in.
They all took a stand for their cause.

So I stand here, not to tell you that you are wrong. No I stand here, to summon you all. I summon you to start yet another fight. I summon you to care, to care enough;

To care enough to find something you believe in.
To care enough to fight for that something you believe in.
To care enough to not think what it might mean to believe, to have hope
Because I know, it can be frightening to have hope

So try to be brave, remember those who where brave before you and dare to have hope
As one of the bravest believers of all times said:
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream