assigned seats
this
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hey guys how’s everyone i hope
everyone’s feeling good
so first of all before i start
everything anything
could we all take our phones outside
like this everyone hold it outside
i can’t see anybody so i hope you’re
doing what i’m saying
great now open your notes
and write down your top five closest
friends
do it i’m not kidding do it
is everyone done
so i’ve now closed them and just
memorized it
i’m about to begin my talk
so question has anyone here been
assigned a seat
by a teacher i have
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well has anyone been assigned a friend
you might not get it now it was third
preparatory stage
and i had just moved to a new school
i was feeling anxious depressed
and nervous i felt vulnerable
i had sat down on a desk on my own and
told myself
everything is going to be all right
that’s what i thought so a couple of few
days later
i had made some friends they weren’t the
coolest
but they were company at least i had
people to share my
ideas with or anyone to talk to
and then it came to my realization how
the class was distributed
on the right you had the cool kids
that everyone wanted to be and in the
middle
you had the wannabe girls or guys
and on the left you had the losers
geeks the science lovers which i’m proud
to say
i am one of
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however however
i always looked at this right side
and i saw in them confidence and how
they were powerful and they had most
importantly they had
all the attention and i always seek the
attention to be honest
so what did i do i approached them day
by day
and i even started started watching
football which i
love
so i just watched it to start any
conversation with them
and what do you know day after day
i became one of them i became
one of the cool kids finally
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so we used to do these weird habits
or how do you call them a daily routine
really we used to skip classes
disturb the class wreck school stuff
because we’re cool no one can judge us
and there was always this voice inside
me
telling me is what are you doing
this is wrong this is not you
why are you doing this stop it now
i ignored it i never cared really what
it said
it was a normal session so we
sat down on our side the right side
and there was this teacher that we
always made fun of
she used to stutter a lot so we actually
counted how many times she stuttered
or did anything we disliked really
so my teacher had realized what i had
done
and actually before that
i felt guilty just writing everything
she said
i felt the guilt just trembled down on
me
but i kept quiet because
i was afraid i was going to lose them i
was afraid that they were going to judge
me
for not accepting accepting what we did
so the teacher took me aside and told me
i looked to her in how do you describe
i didn’t know what she meant really at
first
so i thought i go home and sat down
and looked through a mirror and looked
into a mirror
and just told myself
so i thought to myself i had to lose
these people
now or never so what did i do
i gradually just stepped away stepped
away stepped away
until we lost contact we no longer
talked again
they never cared to ask why really
because
they never actually cared about me they
just wanted to destroy me
so where did i go you might ask back to
my starting point
the left side with all the geeks nerds
you name it
the people who actually care for me
they accepted me and they let me share
my thoughts and ideas with them
and i realized this
is the place where i belong this
is my assigned seat after all this
my assigned seat so you should always
stick with your friends your real
friends
and usually it’s you that you have to be
your own wake-up call
and whenever i’m sitting with my friends
i always look at this right side
and think to myself they’re ugly
they’re no longer cool as i thought
and if you’re ever in this in this
situation like i was in
and you don’t want to admit it and if
you’re feeling like
someone is choking you and not letting
you share your thoughts or ideas or just
saying
anything this is not a friendship
this is a toxic friendship that you’re
in
which is completely wrong so guys
let’s take our phones again yes yes
let’s look at our list are these
actually your friends
think about it thank you
thank you so much
that was not me that was him