Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Good evening. several(prenominal) of you out t present may not realize this but those of you who attend Sun clipping Middle School have been with this guy for the last seven years. I would like to ask you either, not just Sun term Middle School grads and who all else, to join me in conveying Mr. Weather for his patience and dedication to the success of our upbringing over the years. We atomic number 18 the Class of 2000. The first graduating class of the bran-new millennium. The foregone four years have been pretty wild. We started out as a bunch of rats in a small cage, but as measure went by we learned and matured and became big rats in a new small cage, but in any case, the cage door is at once opening the handlers turning us wild things loose. As we leave Where the enraged Things Are, home to some of the best cat fights, fist fights and food fights this gradient of the Cascades, I have a little surprise for all of you seated in front of me here tonight in your caps an d gowns we aint seen nothing yet One of my favorite books when I was little was Where the unbalanced Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Im sure many of you here tonight are quite familiar with it. It is about a unripened boy named Max who loves to dress up in his creature causal agency and cause trouble. When his bring disapproves, Max creates a world of stool-believe with his mental imagery in which he is king of all wild things. Here he is accepted and revered for his savage behavior. I loved it in my young days because of the pictures of the big monsters and was jealous of the boy who got the chance to live with them. I always wanted to be that boy. To be a wild thing, carefree, with no responsibilities or authority figure to answer to. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called hi... ...ere he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot. It is now time to beat out of high school and enter a world of choices. It is time to leave where the wild things are, taking our experiences, memories and knowledge and follow our hearts and dreams. It is time to give thanks to all who have supported and helped us spate this path. Thank your friends for being there for you, thank your teachers for preparing you, thank your parents for guiding you and thank all others who always made sure your supper was still hot. So as you hop in your sailboat and follow to where good smelling things are to eat, remember what youve learned from being in the world of the wild things. apply this experience and utilize it towards your future, because I guarantee you that what lies ahead for us is gonna make being a wild thing look like a walk in the park. Thank you.