Choice 演讲稿

Choice 演讲稿

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen:

High school life is said to be beautiful and cherishable, as you can see from many movies, books and articles. But unfortunately, my high school life is not one of them. On the first day in my senior high, after school I told my mom that I had already made up my mind to be a science major. My mom was literally startled and said: “Wow, I didn’t expect you to be so realistic at such a young age.” Well apparently I was. Because at that time in my hometown, being an art major in high school is the synonym of being stuck in an incompetent class with incompetent students and incompetent teachers. Even the art majors themselves agreed that they had made a choice that put them in the danger of ending up in a third-class college. While I, being crazy about first-class universities and being so “realistic” that had scared my own mother, chose the option that seemed to be the only one possible for my future success.

The following three years was a total tragedy. I tried very hard to transfer my passion for language and literature towards mathematics and macro science tests; I tried so hard that I barely talked to anyone in school; I tried so hard that I didn’t know the names of half of my peers in class; I tried so hard that I locked myself in my room solving math problems during every one of the three New Year’s Eves; I tried so hard that I threw my love for language out of my sight and compromised with reality under my own choices. The only reason why I kept doing this is that this was rational, and it was possible for me to get into good universities if I kept going. The price I paid for the word “reason” was quite huge.

Thank goodness my sufferings paid off. Today I’m standing here, as a language student in the university, speaking English happily and freely. Deep down in my heart I say to myself: “April, stop being excessively realistic, follow your heart from now on, because if you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”