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Graduation Speech: What Life Means Love

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I've often asked myself: What is life all about? And each time I ask this rhetorical question, I get the same answer: Life is the small smiles that we have our little moments of joy, the wide grins that fill our faces when our hearts are full with happiness, the bits and pieces of ecstasy that touch our bodies and make them tremble; life is all about the heartbreaks, the shattered hearts, the outstretched flashes of devastation, and the brief moments of glee that follow the shattered pieces of our hearts when they are brought together again. Life is when we fail, fall and come up once again. It's the past memories hunting our present and the fears of carrying on and lose those memories. The satisfaction of victories and the unhappiness of our defeats. …show more content…

Love is abundant, it goes far and beyond our understanding and expectation. Love is the first time you open your eyes as an infant and see nothing but cheerful faces happy to see you. Love is the first time you grab the handle of your bicycle then, take off, and while seeing everything goes by so fast before your eyes, you fall and hurt your knees, but instead of crying, you laugh. It's when you first see this person that forces his/her way to into your heart and makes you flutter. It's the first time you hold hands with the person you love, and look each other in the eye, saying nothing, but your silence screams millions of emotions all at once. Your first kiss, when your lips meet his/hers then fireworks lift you up to heaven in an unspoken, indescribable feeling. Then the pain comes, because pain is part of life, part of love. When you spread your wings above the clouds, only for them to burn leading you to fall to your demise, leaving nothing but broken bones. You got scared of trying again, afraid of falling in love or being touched by anyone, but when you had the chance you let your guards down and accepted life's passion with open

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