My specific purpose for this audience is to uplift, inspire and motivate them to live life to the fullest and use your mistakes and hard times as a learning tool.
My intended audience is COMM 101 classmates.
Introduction
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
~ Robert Francis Kennedy
I use this quote because it is so true and accurate. I have experienced this quote first hand. Have you experienced this quote? I come to you today to hopefully inspire and motivate you to learn lessons from every experience be it good or bad. I find myself trying to help just one person on a daily basis from the lessons I myself have learned and experienced. So I hope that just one of you sitting here today can find at least one lesson from my speaking to you today. A large majority of us here have experienced more life than most. We have children, spouses, and jobs. We have the added responsibilities of family and home. To me that is what makes this day of graduation so incredibly fullfilling and meaningful. We have faced and overcame our fears, hesitations and doubts of our ability to manage time and still fullfill all of our responsibilities.
Body
I began life as a womans mistake. Now I know that sounds harsh but it is true. My childhood was not anything to brag about. It was an abusive and an extremely negative environment. Alot of people bein life in this manner and must choose to live life as a victim or as a survivor. Now that being said, I chose to go the survivor path and I threw myself into my education and trying to be the best I could to gain approval and acceptance. The first lesson I learned at such a young age was to seek only to accept yourself and that only you yourself limit your achievments. This lesson will repeat itself continually throughout my life. I have found that if you first dont learn the lesson it will come back again and again until you do learn it. I have found that everything is a lesson. Everything...
