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Humorous Wedding Speech By Baldwin High School

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Good evening class of 2016 and guests. It is an honor to stand before you tonight. If I 'm being completely honest, I was absolutely clueless about what to say in this speech. But over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to reflect on what Baldwin High School has meant to me and what comes next. And during my reflection, I found myself thinking about time. (PAUSE) About how time flies by, (PAUSE) about how there’s never enough of it. (PAUSE) About how life hits us so fast that we don’t always get to appreciate the time that we have, or the people that we share our time with. It seems like only yesterday when we first stepped foot on campus, and now, here we are sharing this final time together. I 've come to accept the fact that we can 't gain back lost time. (PAUSE) We can never go back in time to relive a favorite moment...or correct a mistake from our past. But despite the fact that we might not be able to stop or rewind time, we do have the opportunity to cherish every moment, to make our time memorable and appreciate the time that we have left. …show more content…

Because, as they say, laughter is the best medicine; (PAUSE) probably because it’s free and it doesn’t require a prescription. (PAUSE) But no matter how tough things may seem, laughter always seems to cheer us up. So I urge all of you to laugh, laugh at whatever you want, whenever you can. As E.E. Cummings once said, “a day without laughter is a day wasted.”And I cannot agree more, laughter has the ability to brighten any day, but beyond simply making each day more enjoyable, laughter requires you to stop and appreciate the moments that you

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