Here, I tried to capture what’s Obama said, but in some part of his speech I didn’t get his words. I like Obama, in sense of the way he speaks and deliver his speech. He simply good motivator, encourage people and talk straight to the point. So, I’ll share what he said in Wake filed High School-Arlington, VA about three days ago. So much moral of the story we can learn and so inspiring for me. The sentences I bold, are my favorites and good quotation.
When I was raised by single mom who had to work and struggle the time to pay the bill was not able to gives us the things that other kids have. There’s a time when I miss having a father in my life. There’s a time when I was lonely and I felt like I didn’t feed in. So I was no ease as focus as I should been on school. I did something that I’m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could’ve easily taken and turned for the worst. But I was lucky, I got a lot of second chances, and I have the opportunity to go to college, in Law School, and follow my dreams. My wife, first lady, Michelle Obama, she has similar story. Neither poor parents had gone to college and they didn’t have a lot of money. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, and so that she could go to the best school in this country.
Some of you might not have those advantages, maybe you don’t have adult in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone on your family has lost their job and there’s not enough money to go around. Maybe you life in neighborhood where you don’t feel safe or have friends who pressure you to do things you know are not right. But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, or you’ve got going on from home, none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or have a bad attitude in school. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher or cutting class or dropping out from school. There’s no excuse for not trying. Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’re landed up. No one written your destiny for you, because here in America you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
That’s what young people like you are doing everyday all across America. Young people like Jasmine Perez from Texas, she hasn’t did speak English when she first start on school neither her parents had gone to college. But she worked hard, earned good grade and got the scholarship to Brown University, as now in Graduates School studying Public Health on her way to becoming doctor. I’m thinking about, Andoni Schultz from Los Althos California who’s fought from brain cancer since he was three. He has endured all treatment and surgeries. One of which affected his memory, so took much longer, hundred of extra hours to do school work. But he never felt behind. He’s headed to college this fall. And then, Chantell Steve from my hometown Chicago, Illinois even when bouncing from faster home to faster home, in the toughest neighborhood in the city. She manages to get a job in local health care center. Start a program to keep young people out of gangs and she’s on track to graduates from high school with honor and go on to college. and Jasmine, Andoni, Chantell aren’t any different than any of you. They face challenges in their life just like you do.
In some cases, they got a lot of worst of than many of you. But they refuse to give up. They choose to take responsibilities for their life for their education and set goals for them self. And I expect to all of you to do the same. That’s why the day I’m calling on each of you to to set your own goals for your education and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll decide to get involved in extracurricular activity, or volunteered in your community. Maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who’s being teased or bullied , because of who they are or how they look. Because you believe like I do that all young people deserve the safe environmental study and learn. Maybe you’ll decide to take a better care of your self, so you could be more ready to learn.
And along those line by the way I hope all of you are watching your hands a lot and then you stay home from school when you don’t feel well so we can keep people from getting the flu august fall on winter. But whatever you resolve to do I want you to commit to it, I want you to really work at it and sometimes you get sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work. And you take your success through rapping,or basketball, being a reality TV star, chances are you’re not gonna be any of those thing. The truth is being successful is hard, you won’t love every subject that you study, you won’t click with every teacher that you have, not every homework assignment would seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed in anything the first time you try. That’s okay.
Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who had the most failure. J.K Rowling who wrote Harry Potter. Her first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his High School Basketball team, he lost hundred of games, missed thousands of shoots during his career, but he wants said I have failed over and over over over again in my life and thats why I succeed. These people succeeded because they understood that you can’t let your failure define you, you have to let your failure teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get in the trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re trouble maker, it means you have to try harder to act right. If you had a bad grade its doesn’t mean you stupid and just mean you need to spend more time studying. No ones born being good at all things, you become good at things through hard work. You’re not varsities athlete the first time you play new sport. You don’t hit every not the first time you sing a song, you’ve got to practice.
The same principal applies to your school work. You might have to do math problem few times before you got it right. You might have to reach something few times before you understand. You definitely have to do a few draft of a paper before its good enough to handed in. Don’t be afraid to ask question, don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that everyday, asking for help isn’t sign of weakness is a sign of strength. Because it shows you the courage you have when you don’t know something. and that allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust. a parent, a grand parent or teacher, a coach or counselor and ask them to help you to stay on track to meet your goal. and even when you’re struggling, or even when you discourage and you feel like other people have given up on you. Don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on your self, you give up on your country.
The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. its about people who keep going. who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything not less than their best. The story of students who sat, when you sit 250 years ago, when the age of revolution and they founded this nation. young people, students who sat when you sit 70 years ago who overcame a depression and one of world war. who fought civil right and put the man on the moon. Students who sat when you sit 20 years ago who found a google and twitter and facebook and change the way we communicate with each other.
So today I wanna ask all of you, what your contribution gonna be, what problem are you gonna solve, what discoveries will you make. what will president who comes from here in twenty, fifty, or hundred years say about what all of you did for this country. Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classroom, get you the books, the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do you’re part too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year, expect you to put your best effort in everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down. don’t let your family down or your country down and most of all don’t let yourself down. Make us all proud. Thank You very much everybody.
God bless you. God bless America. Thank You. Thank You.
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