This I Believe; Writing and Speech, grade 10.
This I Believe speech from 10th grade. It's on their website as well, so you can click here to read it on the This I Believe site.
I believe people who seem quieter than others sometimes have much more to say than they actually want to say out loud. The talkative people of the world have just as much to say as the ones who choose to remain silent. Or maybe, silence is really the opposite of how it is defined.
Remember in middle school, when you’re too worried to say something because you didn’t know what friends are going to think of you? Or when you had too much on your mind to sit down and talk about it with someone? You didn’t want to seem like a blabbering idiot, so instead, you said nothing, keeping everything bottled up inside. Now you end up spilling every thought and every feeling that comes to mind to yourself. That’s not a silence though to you, because, even though you aren’t speaking to anyone, you’re still wondering over the effects of possible questions or problems that lay ahead.
Some people are ones to ask opinions to friends or parents, hoping that someone else can provide reassurance. Others though, don’t want that, they don’t want someone telling them what they think all the time, they’d rather know how they ask themselves a question and answer it.
I remember when I was younger, even before middle school, when I would be worried to share my opinions with others, thinking that they might disagree or find some stupid reason to dislike me. I would rather know what I think of my own beliefs, than be taught to think a certain way, or when I should raise my voice. All the time, I would wonder who would find that something I said weird or, simply oppose my beliefs, and if they would still be able to look beyond that and see a normal person. If I didn’t need to know how to be able to think for myself, or be able to decide what my emotions were, then I wouldn’t be so nervous. I mean, who cares if you speak your opinions whenever you wanted and not have to worry about what the people around you thought?
But people do find reasons to look into other’s opinions, to find something about them that may not make them as perfect as others might hope. That’s what makes some people so worried about what others think of them, they want to be able to find somewhere in between, somewhere where they can share their beliefs without having anyone ridicule them, or worry about what they might think. Talkative people are the ones, who I see, who are free to share their opinions and ideas without caring what others think of them. But the quieter people are the ones who won’t always take that risk, and not say what they feel, even if it means waiting until it’s too late to change something.
I believe that we all have something to say to each other, some of us just don’t say it out loud.
Again, asking for comments from anyone. :)
I believe people who seem quieter than others sometimes have much more to say than they actually want to say out loud. The talkative people of the world have just as much to say as the ones who choose to remain silent. Or maybe, silence is really the opposite of how it is defined.
Remember in middle school, when you’re too worried to say something because you didn’t know what friends are going to think of you? Or when you had too much on your mind to sit down and talk about it with someone? You didn’t want to seem like a blabbering idiot, so instead, you said nothing, keeping everything bottled up inside. Now you end up spilling every thought and every feeling that comes to mind to yourself. That’s not a silence though to you, because, even though you aren’t speaking to anyone, you’re still wondering over the effects of possible questions or problems that lay ahead.
Some people are ones to ask opinions to friends or parents, hoping that someone else can provide reassurance. Others though, don’t want that, they don’t want someone telling them what they think all the time, they’d rather know how they ask themselves a question and answer it.
I remember when I was younger, even before middle school, when I would be worried to share my opinions with others, thinking that they might disagree or find some stupid reason to dislike me. I would rather know what I think of my own beliefs, than be taught to think a certain way, or when I should raise my voice. All the time, I would wonder who would find that something I said weird or, simply oppose my beliefs, and if they would still be able to look beyond that and see a normal person. If I didn’t need to know how to be able to think for myself, or be able to decide what my emotions were, then I wouldn’t be so nervous. I mean, who cares if you speak your opinions whenever you wanted and not have to worry about what the people around you thought?
But people do find reasons to look into other’s opinions, to find something about them that may not make them as perfect as others might hope. That’s what makes some people so worried about what others think of them, they want to be able to find somewhere in between, somewhere where they can share their beliefs without having anyone ridicule them, or worry about what they might think. Talkative people are the ones, who I see, who are free to share their opinions and ideas without caring what others think of them. But the quieter people are the ones who won’t always take that risk, and not say what they feel, even if it means waiting until it’s too late to change something.
I believe that we all have something to say to each other, some of us just don’t say it out loud.
Again, asking for comments from anyone. :)