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On the day before Stephen's big speech, he was starting to get nervous, but who wouldn't. This was the first time where Stephen was given a opportunity to talk to the whole school, and what an honor it was for him to give it during his graduation. "I wonder if I can make an impact in my fellow student's lives with this speech." Stephen said. He was so concerned with making the perfect speech that he started to realize that all he needed was to talk about his experience at (SCHOOLS NAME). The more and more he thought about it, the more and more he regretted accepting to make this speech. "What am I going to say? Will this speech be how people judge me for the rest of my life?" he said. This kind of questions were the questions that came up in his mind every so often for the past two weeks and till now he has been able to reassure himself that everything was going to be alright. For some reason, tonight was different and he couldn't take his mind off these questions. He needed someway to restore confidence in himself and make sure he was going to be able to say the speech in front of the audience. He started looking at his speech again. "Parents, Teachers, and my fellow studentsÐ'...wait, when did they become my fellow students? The use of fellow describing the students makes it seem as though I had a connection with them or that I cared for them. All they have done for the greater part of my childhood was outcast me from them and they never accepted my ideas for anything. Am I lying straight through my teeth when I read my speech? Well aren't all speakers lying to us when they read their speech? Maybe I could change that intro from my fellow students to and graduates. Then I don't have to feel bad when I say this speech to them, otherwise it's going to be stuck in my mind that I was lying to them." Stephen said. Stephen seemed as though he was going through another chapter in his life where he