Graduation Speech: The Beginning of Your Life :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

P arnts, teachers, families and friends, welcome and thank you for joining us tonight at the County High School starting time ceremony for the Class of 2012Graduation is a time to look fondly upon memories which have been made over the past three years. I am legitimate all of us have our own memories which we hold close to our hearts and make us grin when we think of them. Events which become very vivid in my mind are football and basketball games, dances, pep assemblies, at least the ones from our sophomore and junior years, and especially time spent with a group of friends honourable doing whatever. It hurts to think of all these memories and then realize this time period in our lives is coming to an end.From the lyrics of Dave Mathews, So why would you care, to get out of this place, you and me and all our friends, such a happy human race ... As we all go our separate ways ... I will remember.Graduation is also time to look at what the future has in store for each of us. It is a very serious time, a time to take a look at what path our lives are going to take once the caps and gowns are taken off and we are thrust into a world which is not so well known to just about of us. Will you be successful? Will you be unsuccessful? This success I am speaking of has nothing to do with monetary gains but is calculated solely by happiness. Are you truly happy? Will you be five or ten years down the road? Begin supplying for your future tonight, set goals. Figure out ways to achieve these goals and fulfill your dreams. If you do not like the path your life has taken thus far, if it does not make you happy, re-