Good evening Yucaipa High School graduates, friends, family, staff, school board members, and administration. I am greatly honored to have been chosen to be the class speaker for perhaps the finest graduating class ever at Yucaipa High School, the class of 2017! As I considered my options for this address, I have decided to share with you events from my life that I hope you will find inspiring, moivational, and perhaps even humorous. So without further ado, I present these thoughts to you(especially the graduates) of the Yucaipa High School Class of 2017.
Tonight I want to share 3 stories with you, that's all. Stories that changed my life in the way that I have never thought.
In my first story, I want to talk about challenge, and how challenge can make you stronger. Like Sean Combs said, "Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them." In 23rd October 2015 I first moved with my family to the United States of America. The most difficult challenge that
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“If you want to be happy, do not live in the past, worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”- Roy T. Bennett. I used to look too much in the past, forgetting that I actually had all I needed at that time. There's a moment in life when you need to be thankful for what you have, not blaming you for what you don't have and what opportunities you just missed. Living in the past is a waste of time, even if you think at the moment that is the right choice at that time, it's not. After I got in the United States was easier for me to live in the past, that was the perfect place for me, there I could've found my friends and everything that came along them. It's been a long time until I realized that what's in the past needs to stay in the past and what's in the present, needs to be lived in the present. Do not forget that you have a glorious future in front of you, make it worth