Heroes!

Yesterday in my speech class (at Mountain View College) we had to give an informative speech. So I decided to give my acadec speech from last year, it talks about heroes and how we take what we have for granted most of the time! This speech took hours of practice for me to memorize it and be able to perform it! Mr. Locke made me say the speech a million times, and yet I never got tired of it because it had a very important message behind its words! The message was basically this: a hero is someone that allows you to view things in a different perspective ! A hero is not someone famous like an athlete or a famous music or movie star. No a hero is just ordinary people doing extraordinary things! Last year I had to practice this speech in front of a variety of audiences freshman, sophomores, junior, seniors, and even some teachers! Everytime I went into a room to perform my speech everyone would just sit there and stare at me, some would even cry, some would just wonder, and others would just go right back to whatever they were doing as if they didn't really care about what I had to say! I expected for some people not to really care about what I had to say I mean it was early in the morning they were probably tired and hungry. For the most part everyone focus their attension on me! I had a whole classroom just focus on what I had to say! So this cycle continued for about two weeks, and in those to weeks I had learned a lot about giving a speech! Then the moment of truth was near and it finally came on January 31st of 2004. Mr. Locke took me to the room where my speech was to be perform I still remember asking him "hey Mr. Locke are you going to stay and listen to me give my speech" and he look at me as if he was the one about to give a speech for the first time in an Academic Decathlon competition and he said "you bet" I could tell he was kind of nervous, but at the same time he knew I was ready and so I went in and the door was shut tight, now it was only me, three judges, and a lady that kept the time! Mr. Locke was outside anxiously waiting for me to put to the test all the things he thought me, about giving a speech, and so they explained the rules to me and I started with this famous line "there are so many things all of us take for granted!" I went on trying to remember all the things I learned from all the times I practice the speech at Sunset, then I remember one particular thing that Mr. Locke said to me before I went in he said "I know you can do this" and from then on I never looked back. So I continued on until I got to the last line which goes a little something like this: "Maybe...Just maybe someday...I might become a hero too!" Then after that I did my Impromptu on a quote that I remember, but I will posted as another challenge in another post, then it was over! I had given my speech so I shook the judges hands once again, and walked out of the room! The first person I saw was Mr. Locke he look proudly at me and so I asked "how did I do" and he said "you did really good you sounded enthusiastic and energetic! So I figured I might have a chance to medal! Unfortunately it didn't turn out that way! Beyond the medal I learned a lot of things, that have now been very useful to me! Which brings me to what I mentioned at the top of this post which was that yesterday in my speech class at Mountain View I gave the speech once again, and it brought back a lot of memories that I will never be forgotten and after all was over and done with, I got an "A" and made many people cry and many others reflect about their own lives and their own heroes, but a hero to me is someone that helps you became a better person or changes your life for the better, and not someone famous on TV ! So to all of you that help me become a better person and/or change my life for the better thanks for being my hero!
Maybe... just maybe... someday I might become a hero too!