Outline.

Intro: I'm walking down an aisle to get to a stage, and as I do

I get "flashbacks" which illustrate my feelings toward writing, 

reading and medicine.

Standing Up: Internal monologue focusing on how at the end of 

a major part of your life you reflect on the things you've gained

and the things you've lost.

 -Transition to: Seventh Grade: my teacher gives me detention for

not paying attention in class. During the detention she gives me

the first book I actually had to read about adventure and taking

those first few steps to greatness

 

- I'm walking down the aisle thinking about words I might need

to say and how I should phrase them...with the realization of what

I need to say when I get up there

 

 - Flash to 9th grade writing for the school newspaper. Highlighting

myself enjoying writing will illustrate my interest in writing.

 - Flash to 11th grade when my girlfriend is in the hospital where

I volunteer. I 

write her a small song and go to visit her. As I'm waiting a doctor

runs by with people surrounding a stab wound victim. As I watch, 

I walk toward the scene, a pair of hands grab my shouilder.

- I'm being patted on the back as I reach the stage and walk up to the podium

and I have my final Flashback

- I'm lying in a hospital bed afraid that I'm going to die, with my stomach in 

pain. The doctors wheel me in for surgery as my appendix has burst and I'm slowly

dying. I want to take the knife and do it myself and make the pain go away, but I'm

too weak. As I fade out to unconciousness...

- I open my eyes. I tell the audience in front of me my name and the college I attend.

I share my career goals and cite my inspirations, my hopes and also my fears. I 

encourage them to do what they need to do to have a happy life and remember that its the 

small things in life that matter. The End of the Speech will be the end of the paper.