Teachers and classmates:
Hello everyone!
The title of my speech today is "The future belongs to you."
"The past belongs to death, the future belongs to yourself" is a poem by the 18th-century British romantic poet Shelley. It has been recited by people for hundreds of years.
The road of life is rugged and bumpy. Every section of the road ahead is an unknown, and there will always be thorns and reefs. So, some people succeeded and some people failed. Everyone's past is different. Whether it is a glorious yesterday or a past that is unbearable to look back on, it can only represent yesterday. On today’s journey, everyone is standing on the same starting line.
Some people always regret the past and live in pain and self-blame every day. They are always sighing: "Hey, I would have been fine then!" They regret it today, regret it tomorrow, and regret it the day after tomorrow. Their future is spent in self-pity, but they cannot learn from past failures, regroup, and fight again on the battlefield of life; they do not bury yesterday deeply in their hearts and hand over the past to death; nor do they welcome it. Tomorrow, face a new future. In this way, they lose their future.
Contrary to the former, there are also some people who succeed, so they are somewhat intoxicated in front of flowers and smiling faces. They always write honor on their faces and talk about it. They imagine that their future will also be full of flowers and smooth sailing. Little do you know that when fate smiles on you, it is when you are most in danger. As a result, a "tortoise and the hare" between people takes place. As a result, their futures are trapped in a web of sweet talk and complacency. The mistake of the former is to regard the past as the future, and the mistake of the latter is to regard the future as the past. They will all fail.
Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy studied at Gassen University when he was young, but dropped out due to poor grades. After some painful thinking, he finally woke up and wrote down his shortcomings in his diary: 1. Lack of perseverance; 2. Deceiving himself; 3. No introspection... If Toon had not awakened when he was young and had not broken with yesterday, mankind today might not have a large number of spiritual wealth such as "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "Resurrection" and so on!
Of course, "the past belongs to death" does not mean abandoning the past, it just allows you to integrate past successes and failures, joys and tears into today's struggle. "Looking back again" is necessary, but what is more important is to look back and welcome a brand new sun gracefully. That way, you will have a future of your own, and you will be able to say firmly and confidently, "My future is not a dream."
Life is made up of countless yesterdays, todays and tomorrows. Yesterday will always be yesterday; today will eventually become yesterday, and tomorrow will eventually become today. If you seize today, you will seize tomorrow; if you seize tomorrow, you will seize the future. If you always cry in the past, you will lose more than just yesterday. Fall down and get up again. Isn't life just like this, arduous treks and magnificent trips to the sea again and again? If you keep working hard, there will be a new village ahead of you. If you succeed, forget about it and start from scratch tomorrow.
Friends, forget the past, because "the past belongs to death"; friends, embrace the sun of tomorrow, because "the future belongs to you!"
Thank you all!