//Cough. So I'm going to attempt to translate a Chinese thing into English to the best of my ability and fail horribly, don't mind me, but do read? Please?
One more thing.. I DONT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THE LAST PARAGRAPH, DON'T HATE ME. THANK YOU. Oh and this isn't my own speech. It's a video in Chinese that has moved my heart many times ;o; So here, let me start by telling you a story.
In a village elsewhere, a girl and her mother had a fight, the mother told her child, "You're already in high school, I have to work hard, work until my back aches every day just to make 800 yen a week. You get such a low score on your test, have you any idea how horrible I feel?" The daughter tells her mother, "Mom, it wasn't on purpose, it was a careless mistake." The mother replied, "If I make a careless mistake, then I don't get paid even one cent." Then the daughter slammed the door, and left home. This tiny argument, over ten years of discipline and nurturing had just gone to waste, so easily.
The mother called everyone that she knew to look for this child, but could not find her. At night around 8 or 9 pm, the young girl walked along a stream of water, all cold and hungry, hating her mother, walked past a shop and saw someone eating food and stared sadly at the food. The manager cooked up a bowl of noodles and invited her in, "Here child, did you have a fight with your family? Eat this, aren't you hungry, hurry and eat it and go home." The girl wolfed down the noodles and dropped to her knees and exclaimed, "Manager, you are my savior, I thank you, you're way better than my mother!" The manager hears this and replies, "Child, just judging by this sentence of yours, I shouldn't have given this bowl of noodles for you to eat. You don't even know me, you don't know what my first nor last name is. I only gave you one bowl of noodles, you appreciate me this much. Your mother raised you from when you were just a baby to the person you are today, went through all those painful labors, why don't you appreciate her?" Then realization hit the child, she ran back to her house in a hurry to find her mother. When the child is away, the parent worries for the child, but when the parent is away, the child doesn't worry for the parent. Don't let someone tell you "Dear gods, I pity your parents!"
Somewhere else in the world, there was an earthquake, a little plea heard from a little girl saying, "Save me.. Come save me.." The people moved the objects, and found a little girl, under the age of 3, trapped for a day and a night. The dawn was quickly approaching, the people hurriedly pulled her out. The girl cried, "Uncle, please save my mother! Mother, father, it's okay, uncle is coming!" The uncle quickly hurried to look, and found under the child, were her parents. Everyone at the scene had tears running down their faces, the girl's parents had already left the Earth. The mother was bent over, on her back supported a heavy object, between the little inches the mother and father had between them, laid the child. Between those tiny little spaces, the daughter was able to survive. The parents had sacrificed their lives to protect their child.
Fellow students, stretch your hands to your parents, hold hands with them. Here, let me sum things up for you. You are high schoolers now. Three more years and you'll get into a college. You may have classmates who can eat meals with their parents every single day. Some students live at school dorms, and can only eat with their parents at weekends. When you get into a college, you can only get two chances a year to visit your parents, and then when you start working, there's only vacations! So the time you have isn't that long, be sure to cherish the time you have now! So that one day when your parents leave Earth, you have a huge realization, yelling, "Mother! Father! I'm sorry!" Because it'd be already too late. They have suffered many things for you, worked hard for you, just so you can have a wonderful future!
Fellow students, time passes very quickly, so in this time right now, I think every one of you should complete life's biggest and most important homework. The homework that even the youngest of children has done, but many upon many hasn't. I ask that that you face your parents, have them sit down. Stand straight, let me tell you. On this earth, there's so many people who don't respect their parents, in their whole lifetime, they had never made eye-to-eye contact with their parents. So first things first, please bow your heads, and look at your parents. Look at the white hairs on their head, look at their torn clothing, realize the labor they had gone through for you. Children, look at your mother, your young and beautiful mother. Ever since you came to this Earth, your mother had given up all of her loved hobbies. Mother never went to sing songs, and never went to dance again. Mother always had you in her mind when she was working, and still was thinking of you when she had finished her work. Children, when you were small and got sick and had to go to the hospital, your mother hugged you and knelled in front of the doctor. For your sake, your mother never had face. In the coldest of weathers, your mother washed her hands in the bitter cold water to cook you food. And you never had ever uttered a single, "Mom you've worked hard." All these years, your mother has done so much for you, even in her hardest times, have you ever told your mother, "Mother, I love you." because you were embarrassed.
Look at your father, a resilient man who's supported the weight of your family on his back, loving your mother. His suffering was what your family is suffering. What have you done? You always resented that your father, asking him why he wasn't manager, wasn't the top of some business, wasn't as strong or as good as someone else's father. Children, when you talk like this, let me tell you, we who are fathers, we have faith in our children that they are stronger than other people's children. Have you accomplished this? Children, father has gone through many hardships, father has worked very hard to be able to support the family. It's been very tough. Your smile is your father's smile. These men on this Earth has so much pressure put onto them, the stress of having to earn enough money, the stress of work, but despite that and every other type of stress, mother and father has always appeared happy in front of their children. Children, after all this that you father has done for you, have you ever, in his hardest times, told him, "Father, you've worked hard." You have never, even in his most tiresome of times, told him, "Father, I love you."
Look at your grandparents, the parents of your own parents. What attitude do you have towards these old people at home? Just thinking of them as people who only use money and doesn't make any. Telling them to make meals for you, hold your backpack for you, wash your clothes for you. Children, they are your mother and father's mother and father. When they were young, they barely ate anything, barely wore anything, to raise their own children to adulthood through many hardships, yet still stayed here to look after their children's children. But those children don't even know the most basics of manners. Doing things for you and not even getting a simple thank you in return, even tho there should be one. Children, today, learn the language of love, then it will symbolize that you truly grew up.
Raise your head, no being shy, no being embarrassed, be an excellent individual, be an excellent student. Today, in a loud voice with me, shout "Mother, you've worked hard! Mother, I love you!" "Father, you've worked hard! Father, I love you!" "Grandmother, grandfather, you've worked hard! I love you all!"
Loving your parents is the most important matter in one's life. No one wants to be friends with someone who doesn't respect their parents. So children, love your own mother and father. So lastly, I'd like to make one last speech. Please sit straight, wipe away your tears. You can't pointlessly come into being and leave life the exact same way. You have to achieve something to make worth of this life. So learn to not get angered easily, to not give up easily, do meaningful things. There's a lot of high schooler graduates, clenching their diplomas but can't find a job. There's many people who enter society and meets troubles. So here, let me tell you what it means to love yourself. Every individual should have a goal, to create more worth in one's life. To love yourself. For other people to be happy for you in your achievements. That's loving yourself. If you don't have a goal or purpose. That's destroying yourself. So to be able to truly love yourself, love everyone around you. When you learn to love yourself, you learn to love other people, because loving other people is to love oneself. If one day you become excellent, don't tell others that you're excellent, you need to learn to tell everyone else that they are excellent to be able to hear that you are excellent yourself. When you need help yourself, learn to help others, so that when you come into problems where you need help in, others will help you. Students, teacher is going to give you some advice. you're about to move on to a higher stage in life, there's many people who want to attend college, and to get a job is barely 6 or 7 years from now. Today's high schoolers have some flaws, I advice that you start over and fix them as fast as you can. Learn to write well, learn to speak, change your personality, don't be too narrow-minded. No matter what situation it is, you need to keep smiling, us humans have a urge of pride, you need to not be too prideful, you need to not fear this and that, and when complicated matters hit, learn to tell yourself that you can get over this, that you're strong enough to, since you're an excellent individual.
Students, learn how to use the internet. Learn how to go online, but learn that the internet is not a toy, but a tool. Use the internet as a tool and you'll be able to gather as many information as you wish and become someone who can be of use, who's respected and admired. But if you use the toys online to play games you'll end up hurting yourself. You'll lose all the hope and faith your parents have in you, all the teachings and guidance your teachers have provided you with, lose the value and worth of society itself. So students, the internet is to be used a tool, not a toy. What do you want to be? What do you want to do? What do you want to become? You need to made a plan for yourself, plan for your future and put effort into working towards it, to fulfill your life's purpose. Cherish everything you have, love your parents, and appreciate everything someone has done for you.
(Hhng. The blessing that the person in the video left off with takes too much effort to translate so I'm not even gonna bother. So ye, if you've read it to here, I congratulate you ; u ; )
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