First off, I think we need to start this speech with our thanks. I want to thank Mr White and Mr. Mutch for running the show and allowing both of us to represent this graduating class with two valedictorians. I want to thank Mrs. Martin for introducing us and being a little too kind with your compliments. I want to thank the guests of our graduates, either family or friends, for being here and giving us your support. I want to thank you guys, the graduates, for being really great and supportive people over the last 4 years and for giving us the great honour of standing here today. And thank you to our teachers, who have been the rock of our education since we stepped foot into this massive building. Most of us have been in this school for …show more content…
I’m not going to stand here, and tell you that our best friends here, are going to be our best friends for the rest of our lives. Saying that, these people have been some of the most important people we will ever meet. Simply stated, a friend is a support system. Whoever comes into our lives, comes for a reason. The people who we are lucky enough to call friends, are here to stay until they fulfill their purpose. It can be small, like periodically making us laugh, helping us with homework over the semester, or telling us what to wear to the semi-formal. Then there are our friends who play a larger role in our lives, our ‘close’ friends. They cheer us on when we have an important playoff game, they send us funny memes at 2 am, they know what we dream of achieving, and push us to do our best. When we succeed, they congratulate us, and when we don’t, they remind us to look at the bigger picture, and learn from our failures. No matter how long they’ve been around, or how significant they’ve seemed to be in the story of our lives, we thank them. For being the one’s who truly understand that we aren’t being rude when we walk up to third, and don’t say anything, we just physically can’t breathe. Thank you to our friends who we can always count on for advice, even if we haven’t seen them in awhile. Thank you to our teammates, who occasionally team up against us and push us off of the bench, out of love, of course. Thanks to our desk partners who send their answers when we forget that we have something due the next day. And thank you to the friends that trust us with their darkest secrets, and bless us simply with their presence. The hard truth is, most of us are going to go our separate ways, and we will be unable to maintain the friendships that took years to form. Some of us will be returning