What is your legacy? What are you leaving behind for others? (or what do you hope you are leaving behind for others) Another way to think of this question: how do you want to be remembered by future students? Or do they want to remembered at all? If not, why not?
Being an upperclassman to juniors, sophomores, freshman, and the rest of the school district is a huge honor. Not only do you show kids what it's like to be older, but you show them how they can succeed by the choices they make.
I love getting to go to school with this year's underclassman. This has been my favorite year in high school so far. When looking at this set of kids, I hope I have made a positive impact on their lives. Not just by how well I have done in speech, drama, and choir, but how well I have stayed true to myself. A lot of high school students choose to "go with the flow" because they find that it is easier to be accepted that way, and they know that they will most definitely gain approval from the people who are also doing the norm.
I have not been one of those people. I have chosen to stay true to who I am as a person, a student, and a role model. When underclassmen look at me, I want them to see someone who has not gone with the flow, but instead has chosen to go against the crowd for the sake of not losing himself. I want kids to know that, though it gets tough, you can stay true to who you are. Things actually turn out better when you are confident in who God created you to be. He brought you into this world in the year you were born, put you around the family you were born into, and placed you into the school you are in for a purpose. He does not want you to waste time in your life by trying to be someone else He has not created you to be. You were designed to be the person you are for the specific generation you were born into, and the other generations around yours. I want people who are younger, and older, than I am to see an example of what it is like to think positively, be optimistic, love others, and be yourself.
You were place in this world, designed, and appointed to your community for a reason. Don't waste your time there.
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