You Need to STOP!

HELLO LIVING THINGS! HOW's YOUR LIFE SO FAR?

I bet it is great! It should be great!

For this post, I just want to share my speech. Nope, I am not important person actually. I just want to share my final speech for Introduction to Speech Comprehension Course that I took last semester. The title (just like you've read above) is "You Need to Stop!" I took this topic at first because I just want to think about "giving up" from another perspective. Giving up is not always bad. Well, without any further words, just read my speech transcript. Oh ya, keep the note that I performed it when I still on the grade eleven on my high school.

My mother always said to me, “never stop, never give up! Even now maybe you fail, but tomorrow, you will succeed if you do not give up! For me, it’s true. Because now can make this spoon*). I am willing to eat without a spoon for 3 days to collect this spoon. That’s the hard work and not giving up! 

However, someone once said, everything has two sides, black and white, good and bad. So, giving up should have two sides too, bad and good too, right? But, why most of the people said that he is bad? Why most of the people want to stay away from giving up? Honestly, I do believe that giving up have a good side too. Now, let’s see it in another perspective. 

First, let’s return to my past, around 3 years ago. On that day, I have planned to tour with my friends. With bicycle, of course. The place that become our goal on that day is a beach named Pink Beach. We start our journey at 6 in the morning and guided by … Google Maps, of course. We don’t have any idea to go there. As we are cycling so far, the way still didn’t want to give us some sign that the Pink Beach was near. After we are cycling for 50 km, finally we saw a road sign. At first, of course it really a happy situation there, but after that…. Ya, “Pink Beach,” “20 kilometers ahead.” “FFuuuuiiiiinnnneee! Let’s go!” said my captain. We kept cycling our bicycle, but after around 3 kilometers before Pink Beach, we, especially me, too tired and want to take a rest for a while. Suddenly, God come to us and say, “Little boy, you guys need to stop. Turn right, there is a better place there.” We turned to right" We saw a sign with a sign with words “Tanjung Beloam." So, we went to Tanjung Beloam rather than Pink Beach. Well, it’s a beautiful place too actually. And ya, a week after that, I heard that Tanjung Beloam is closed because there is someone who died there because of the tide. Just if we didn’t give up on that day, we would not see a beautiful, unpopular place like that. 

Around a year after that event, when I want to register myself at a high school. On that year, that’s the first time the top high school in my town use an online system to apply for high school. On the first try, I have written all my identity, all my profile correctly. When I click submit, there is a PDF files that compile my profile. At first, I saw that some of the information was wrong. So, I just saw and didn’t download or even print it. “It is the first time, right?” At the second time, I did it with my friends. They got the same problem as me, some of their id were wrong. But the different was, they still download the file. How about me? I cannot even open the file anymore. Later the school told them that because of the system, that’s ok if some of the information was wrong. So, I just want to try one more time. But when I open the platform, unfortunately, there is a message in the system said, “Dear, you need to stop. Turn right, there is a better place there.” I turned right and saw a “Sampoerna Academy Register Form.” I try to register at Sampoerna Academy. And ya, you know? I think I have a…**)  a better school compare to my previous school. 

Speaking about a better school, maybe my mother will happy when she knows that her boy now studying outside Lombok. She just cannot say it. It happened around 7 years ago. I knew and saw it by my own eye that on that day she was sick, especially at her feet. She said that she didn’t know how she got that scars. Well, the day after that, she got calls that she should go to Mataram to take some flowers. At first, she just staring at her feet. But later, she said, “I will never give up! This is just a little scar!” I just saw her and cannot say anything. At 11 in the morning she went to Mataram. A few hours later, I heard a news. A heartbreaking news. She got incident that took her life at Mataram. I just shock, it feels like she just talks to me yesterday, and now she has been passed away. Just if she could give up, even just on that event, maybe she still can smile when she looks at me right now. 

Well, do not give up is a good think. You can get many of its benefits. However, sometimes when you feel that that way is not a good way, that’s ok to stop. Now, because of not giving up, I can make this kind of spoon *). But, If I just give up at using this kind of breakable material***), I can try to find another way and make a better spoon with a better material ****). Just remember, “sometimes, you need to stop. Turn right, there is a better place there.”

Note:
*) Plastic spoon; I showed it up.
**) When I performed it, I see my lecture and his assistant.
***) I broke the plastic spoon.
****) I showed a metal spoon.

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Maybe that's all for now. Thanks a lot.

C ya!