Graduation Speech: Profound

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Profound, huh? I wrote that silly little poem roughly five or six years ago give or take a few. It’s full of some great advice, if I say so myself, but it seems to oversimplify things quite drastically because being happy isn’t all that simple. Life can be full of a lot of horrible things such as endless mental disorders that could be plaguing you, death, addiction, abuse, poverty, sexism, racism, unemployment, or even losing that round you worked really hard on. The list could go on for ages and I could probably fill up my ten minutes just listing off how horrible life can be, but that’s not what the point behind this speech is. It’s actually about taking your life back after something so terrible, how to be happy again after you thought you’d never be happy again. …show more content…
But first you must know just right where to start. You don’t need money, nice clothing or amazing shoes. My speech will teach you just what to do.” Over the past few years, especially just this last year, I stayed in the comfort of my own sadness, wearing it around me like a fuzzy blanket- not willing to recognize how miserable it made me and how hard it made it for others to be around me. I stayed in this sad little comfort zone, believing full heartedly that I couldn’t be happy and I had to be miserable because I had been abused. As if real abuse victims can’t be happy, and if I was happy then that would invalidate my abuse. I was so comfortable with the label I had given myself as a victim and nothing more, I drove this victim complex into my mind and began to form my entire personality around

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