Watch this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

I've always loved this video. While I was working in the nursery at my church today I found a copy of the speech in a box of puzzles. I thought this would be a good place to share it with everyone. Imagine what our generation could do with all the nuggets of genius this speech/essay offers us. Some of my favorite points:

1. "Do one thing everyday that scares you": Make your life worth living. We're in high school and life can seem pretty cyclical, or that's how it feels to me anyway. Go to school, go to lessons, go to rehearsals, go to church and repeat. If we do one thing that scares us everyday it will break that cycle, make life interesting and it could even improve the world around us.

2. "Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults, If you succeed in doing this tell me how": If you were to ask me to recall a compliment right now, I wouldn't be able to say one, instead my mind would just go through a list of insults I've heard. That's just how our brain works, negative things tend to stick to your mind. People claim that insults make you stronger, but they just wear you down. Compliments can bring a smile to your face, and if people point good things about you, chances are it'll be easier for you to find good things about other people. Compliments are just a never ending chain of happy, insults take you nowhere.

3."Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.": This one is particularly important to kids our age. I cannot tell you how many times people have asked me where I want to go to college and I just said "I don't really know". It feels like I'm giving them the wrong answer, but It's okay to not know. I've been telling people for the longest time that I want to pursue music for the rest of my life, that I want to make a career out of it; but I'm starting to question it now. I feel like I have no other alternatives and that my family will only support me if I go into music. I have to keep in mind I'm only fifteen and I have my whole life ahead of me. We shouldn't be trapped in the life people want us to have, and we should always have an open mind

Pay attention to this video closely, even look up the words, you can learn a lot from it!