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Good Afternoon. As I stand here today I see many amazing students; I see scholar-athletes, I see 4.0 GPA’s, I see 1st chairs in orchestra and band, I see D1 bound athletes, I see amazing videographers and I see soon to be Northwood High School graduates. All of you are qualify as successful high school students. All of you are moving on to the next step in life; let that be college of some sorts, or anything else. In such a speech it is traditional for me to now say something inspirational, so now I will follow the long established tradition and have a message for you. Those labels, the ones I opened with, the 4.0 GPAs, scholar athletes, yada yada yada, those are all irrelevant now. You are moving passed high school, you are all equal whether you had a 4.2 or a 3.2. High school is just a step, a step in the never ending stair case of life. You perfect high school students are now in the real world, exposed, vulnerable, without mommy and daddy. Do not think your life is over because high school is over. You may experience hardship for the first time in your life, but moving forward remember this. Remember this when you graduate college, remember this when you get fired from your job, remember this until the day …show more content…

When in elementary school, all I thought about was being a middle schooler. When in middle school, all I thought about was being a high schooler. And when in high school, all I thought about was being in college, or getting into college. (Some of you know that struggle). This type of narrow minded thinking is the reason “peaked in high school” is actually at thing. Now looking back I really should not have just focused on the immediate next step in life. You should zoom out a little. Do the little pinch thing you do with your iPhones, on your life. Do not think you have ever failed. Think of it as a diversion or a detour in your

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