*The trophy means nothing*
Forgot to do this some time ago, so yup this is one of those late posts.
So basically, this speak EZ competition is an initiative in AJC for people to showcase their talents in presentation. And I the Champion in my class, although it doesnt really seem like much since the two guys who are better than me showed their violent objections to the teacher, so yea, makes me feel like a substitute....which I am of course. No complaints there.
Although I did notice that among the classes that I know...the champions are mostly guys. I wonder what happened to the girls? And to think they talk and gossip so much during their free time...odd.
Did on a topic of "Is having bad taste better than having no taste?" What kind of a topic is that?! But after much thinking and consulting among friends and family, I did realise that there is much to talk about in this topic. And this is what I used to prepare for the speech.....
Is having bad taste better than having no taste?
What is taste? Preferences, view point, choices, decisions
Why do people have different taste? Different preferences, different personalities, different environments, different beliefs and lifestyles
Bad taste? Is there really bad taste? Does it exist at all? Its up to the person to say what they wear. Clothes started as a necessity to stay warm, however, nowadays people are using it more for showing off their status and prestige. It is also used to measure a person’s wealth, “coolness”.
No taste? Teenagers are slaves of indeed slaves of fashion (trend, celebrities) followers of trends and fashion. Forgetting the basics of clothes and the meaning for them in the first place.
Judgment? People tend to judge people by the way they dress and by doing that imposes their perceptions of beauty on them. If the person chooses to follow, he/she is betraying one’s own values and thinking to suit to the other party. Taste breeds individuality, it is because of different tastes that people can be different. Imagine the entire street of people wearing the same things. The world would be plain and it would be boring. There is no way to identify individuals from the others. Where is the variety? Where is the fun and colours? If men were to conform and be the same, why then were we born with different skin, hair and eye colours?
PEOPLE SHOULD FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE
YOU wear the clothes DON’T let the clothes WEAR YOU
From the speech, I learnt to be true to yourself. There is no point being successful when you arent happy about it at all. For me, I would rather be a happy loser than to be a sad sad winner. Even though I didnt win and I got completely owned by the Winner (He was decided the winner by EVERYONE in the lecture, that is how good it is and how unanimous the decision was) I learnt a lot, made a couple of friends and most of all, I got the recognition of my friends and some of the teachers. To me that is the most rewarding thing that I could ever get from this competition, I went away without a trophy but in my heart, I won something that cant be compared with a mere piece of plastic and metal.
~Stay true to yourself~
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