2018外研社杯演讲比赛演讲稿TheStones

Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. It ’s my great honor to be here and give you a short speech. Today my topic is The Ston“e s, Groping to Growth”.

Before I start my speech, I want to ask you all: have you ever heard the story Little

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Horse Crossing the River ”T h?e little horse doesn’t know the depth of the water and

does not dare to cross the river. So he asks around,everybody gives him different

answers according to their own experience.It makes him even more scared of the river

than before.After a long struggle, he finally takes the courage to try it himself, and

realizes that the river is neither as shallow as the cow said nor as deep as the little

squirrel said.

I also experienced a confusing period like the little horsewhen ⋯. I have always been

keen to experience everything in life, and hence I believe I versatile tast’e s. m T h o i s f

kind of cleverness leads me to think that I can be good at many things.To me, all the

things I want to try is like rivers to cross. With just a few steps into the water, I can

enjoy all the fun freely, jumping and running in the water; moving forward, the water

gets higher, it is still full of fun and excitement; yet when I ’m approaching the middle

of the river, I find myself surrounded by water, and I can t see where’I can go. I start

to get scared andconfused and don't know what to do.

Then one day, I saw the words “new m e d u i a s t”l i k.e I a t hu’g e s jstone holding me up

out of the water, so I can have a broader view around.“I can do it, ”“I want to do it, ”again, I have a determined mind of what I want to do and where I want to go, since I

can see that writing would be my footing stone out of the water. these kinds of knowledge I have seen about knowing myself are coming in like water, which let me

suddenly realize that my fish bait is writing.But when I realized that only with the

core competitiveness of the individual can stand up, I know I don't have it at all.

However, having a direction does not mean that my problem has been solved.

Although I wrote a lot of articles, I didn ’t dare to submit, for fear that others would refuse me because I didn ’t w r i t e e n w o u e g l h. I started to doubt myself again. I don't

believe in myself and I am not sure if I can do it well. Then again, I found myself lost

in the vast water.At this time, the little horse story came into my mind. I told myself:

“just do it, whatcouldbe the worst?”So, I summed up the lessons of my failure, and