Dimafelix, Micah E.

Grade 11-Humss 2

“Speak Yourself”

Looking back, I was just a little girl without her own voice. I began to worry that If I

speak up, I might be judged of the people around me. I started seeing myself through their eyes. I

stopped doing the things I love. I stopped making beautiful dreams. I tried to be the person that

other people want me to become. Soon, I began to turn off my own voice and started to listen to

the voice of others. No one can hear me, and neither did I. I never listen to my own voice

anymore thinking that it’s better to be led by their voices, so I kept my mouth shut.

And because of that, I began to lose myself. I became like ghost. The burning passion

inside of me started to lose its fire. There was a small voice inside my head and said, “Wake up,

young lady, and listen to yourself”. But it took me a long time to hear it and realized everything.

I think I was very lucky that I didn’t give up.

So now, here I am standing in front of all of you, trying to make my own voice,

listening to my own soul. Maybe I made a big mistake yesterday, I wasted a lot of time, but it

was still me. It made me the person I am today, with all my faults and mistakes from the past.

The flaws I have in me will surely make up the brightest starts in the constellation of my life.

And before I end this, I also want you to realize that your have your own voice, you have your

own dreams and keep that passion inside of you burning. Listen to yourself, love yourself, and

speak yourself.