Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon! I’m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. Today my topic is ‘colorful youth’.
I want to ask you a simple question. What is the meaning of youth in your mind?
Well, some people say that youth is a song echoed the cheerful beautiful melody, while some people say that youth is a painting engraved with the rich romantic colors.
However, I think that the process to realize our dream is the most beautiful song of the youth and it is what makes our youth colorful.
And here I want to talk about a friend of mine. I think she is the right person to represent the colorful youth. When we were young in the high school, she told me that her dream was to be a teacher in the remote mountain areas, to help the poor children and give them sunshine to make their life colorful. At that time, I didn’t care her words much but she was really serious. After we graduated, she went to a normal college. She studied very hard and began to make money at weekends. Some of my classmates said she didn’t enjoy her youth. But I began to understand her. She was making effort to realize her young dream. Now she is a teacher in a remote village where life is not so comfortable. Last week I contacted her and felt she was very happy to have her dream realized. She said sometimes life was miserable, but when she saw the beautiful mountain and the children’s smile, she felt the world became colorful.
If there is rain in that village, I believe she is the sunshine in the rain. The children’s faces reflect the rainbow and that’s what colorful youth really is.
What about us, my dear friends? Just imagine what our youth will be like without dreams. It might be very boring, right? Now it’s time to wake up. Youth is right there, find out what our dreams are and engage ourselves in hard work, because that is the very essence of youth!
Thank you very much for listening.
By Regina He
