but no one’s who made how much affects
them everyone on it affects every one of
us
subconsciously each day we compare
ourselves to those around us a big deal
right but it can’t be have you ever felt
or thought bad about yourself especially
after you compared yourself to those
around you I know I have even to my
closest friends in middle school all
theirs care about is being cool or
popular but that’s not what matters how
much of an impact do opinions or actions
of others have on how you think or feel
about yourself maybe what someone
pointed you out then Instagram post or
that dope told at lunch that was at your
expense and a whole table laughs but
they’re all just kidding they’ll
birthday but did you take it personally
when someone you thought was your friend
talked behind your back
gross weird ugly bad none of its true
when I was younger I got made fun of
almost every day for having unnaturally
long arm hair they called me a man a
gorilla Bigfoot and anything they could
think of it hurt how I kind of cried
most every day for two years I tried
everything I could I tried everything I
could to get rid of it I don’t want
parents are out there somewhere
not going to be happy when I find though
that I rip the hair up I cut it with
scissors and I even tried to shave it
once and to this day people still bring
on my hair
there was a time where was so over
everyone thinking that they were better
than me because they didn’t have
something that I did I started telling
myself that I wasn’t weird because of it
and I started to tell myself that I was
special for it when people said things I
looked them up and down smile wide and
say something like at least I have
something that you don’t are it keeps me
warm in the winter I tell them that I
was proud of it and they got confused
like how can a girl be proud of I’m here
I tell people that I named these hairs
something specific I made them ride when
they asked to read Ned Ted they would
just stare at me and I would smile look
to their eyes and before confidently
walking away now
I wasn’t always united some people said
things I remember there the time in
fourth grade when a boy that class told
her she looks like a man and she was
kind of laughed and shrugged it off and
she responded with the seventh you a
girl then but I was still learning how
to overcome everything if she acted like
she didn’t care or if she didn’t react
at all there wasn’t fun fun a part of
her anymore
like everyone else I have special adults
that I trust one time you see her when I
was talking to one of them she told me
that you can’t change the way people act
or what they do but you can change I
take it in that you can’t change who
people are but like you can shift your
way of thinking to a more positive side
before I was told this I let things get
to me small things like one time in
third grade a boy who I thought was my
friend told me I was fat I believed him
I stopped eating for a while because I
felt bad about how I looked recently the
same boy told me that he was just doing
me a favor
I could have taken this very personally
but instead with my new mindset I just
ignored his comment no matter what
people say be confident you are the only
you so you have to own who you are gross
no just your type of neat weird no just
unique ya know
in science class we actually watched a
video about how man became more athletic
by gaining 10 pounds crazy right
ugly no beautiful when people say things
that are be nice to them because they’re
the ones who need it most
instead of being rude or mean back to
them either ones start spreading
positivity and happiness my mom once
told me be a leader and not a follower
you can do the smallest things to make
people happy and completely change the
day but before you can make others love
themselves you have to love yourself
first when people point out your flaws
own them be confident what you have make
them wish that they had a so called flaw
that you used to be ashamed of
now we’re not trying to encourage any
type of bragging you want people to stay
humble but now with social media in our
world when flipped upside down the
technology it’s so easy to get hurt in
smallest ways because who really knows
it feels an opener that’s what we want
you to stand up for yourself stand up
for others and for heaven sake give
someone a compliment once in a while
tell them that they’re smarter than that
they look great when they smile
appreciate and congratulate their them
for their strengths and forget their
clothes be nice to people it’s not that
hard
start the spread of happiness of
positivity like one of our classmates
was in Florida she quickly started to
realize that they’re posting notes all
over town the same post-it notes you
would find in your school desk or in
your pencil case the same exact ones
that you get in trouble for because
you’re supposed to be paying attention
but instead you’re throwing us to your
friend from across the room who knew
that something so irrelevant to changing
the world could be the reason that
someone wakes up the next day the reason
that someone gets out of body puts a
smile on the face an eternal there was
the same or a positive quote reminding
you to keep your head up just small
enough to tell everyone that they’re
loved and that they can get through
another hardship dirty and ever around
town just kept adding to the post-it
notes creating more positivity and one
happiness to be spread everywhere and at
the end of the day I started to think
wow if you ask someone what made you
have you bought yourself today do you
think they’d have an answer maybe they
would but maybe maybe they weren’t told
enough just how amazing they truly are
and maybe they flat-out just don’t
believe it we try to make a video with a
victim of bullying an upstander in our
original idea the bully would act in an
unkind manner and the victim would feel
obsessive themselves in the video we’re
making everything everything just seemed
so fake cheesy and unreal but in real
life bullying is a real issue in your
life is not something to laugh about or
it’s not a joke but while we are in the
process of making it and not a friend
Peyton I realized something everything
that we’re trying to say and you we
could
all we can do is laugh and eventually
crews had to give up on making a serious
video the only time you could actually
do something without laughing your heads
up was to imagine someone hurting action
try to care for them
we noticed that we can’t hurt the ones
we care about easily and that it
actually take it actually take some
tension to do it we’re all human and we
make mistakes but when you care about
someone and you know their story it can
be extremely hard to stay in order mad
at them so we thought if maybe we
started to care about more people and
realize that how they feel matters tuned
it would help the spread of happiness
it’s inspired us to let all the students
time to be free well schooling on the
Maryland we got together with a few
people we made many posters we hung from
mainly by the bathroom years of our
purpose we thought that if we put the
words that everyone’s to here by the
mirrors then people can think those
things while they look at themselves so
they can genuinely understand that they
are enough and that they matter and then
they are worth it you want people to see
that you can’t cave someone if you know
their story
we also hung them on lockers and the
walls for extra reminders that people
here you have someone that cares about
you and write your love back then if I
had the reminders of how I matter in it
and how I should be confident maybe I
wouldn’t have taken the situation so
badly as I did maybe she wouldn’t cared
it up that’s why we want you to realize
how much you matter you want you to be
proud of who you are and we want you to
be the reason someone smile today
[Applause]
them everyone on it affects every one of
us
subconsciously each day we compare
ourselves to those around us a big deal
right but it can’t be have you ever felt
or thought bad about yourself especially
after you compared yourself to those
around you I know I have even to my
closest friends in middle school all
theirs care about is being cool or
popular but that’s not what matters how
much of an impact do opinions or actions
of others have on how you think or feel
about yourself maybe what someone
pointed you out then Instagram post or
that dope told at lunch that was at your
expense and a whole table laughs but
they’re all just kidding they’ll
birthday but did you take it personally
when someone you thought was your friend
talked behind your back
gross weird ugly bad none of its true
when I was younger I got made fun of
almost every day for having unnaturally
long arm hair they called me a man a
gorilla Bigfoot and anything they could
think of it hurt how I kind of cried
most every day for two years I tried
everything I could I tried everything I
could to get rid of it I don’t want
parents are out there somewhere
not going to be happy when I find though
that I rip the hair up I cut it with
scissors and I even tried to shave it
once and to this day people still bring
on my hair
there was a time where was so over
everyone thinking that they were better
than me because they didn’t have
something that I did I started telling
myself that I wasn’t weird because of it
and I started to tell myself that I was
special for it when people said things I
looked them up and down smile wide and
say something like at least I have
something that you don’t are it keeps me
warm in the winter I tell them that I
was proud of it and they got confused
like how can a girl be proud of I’m here
I tell people that I named these hairs
something specific I made them ride when
they asked to read Ned Ted they would
just stare at me and I would smile look
to their eyes and before confidently
walking away now
I wasn’t always united some people said
things I remember there the time in
fourth grade when a boy that class told
her she looks like a man and she was
kind of laughed and shrugged it off and
she responded with the seventh you a
girl then but I was still learning how
to overcome everything if she acted like
she didn’t care or if she didn’t react
at all there wasn’t fun fun a part of
her anymore
like everyone else I have special adults
that I trust one time you see her when I
was talking to one of them she told me
that you can’t change the way people act
or what they do but you can change I
take it in that you can’t change who
people are but like you can shift your
way of thinking to a more positive side
before I was told this I let things get
to me small things like one time in
third grade a boy who I thought was my
friend told me I was fat I believed him
I stopped eating for a while because I
felt bad about how I looked recently the
same boy told me that he was just doing
me a favor
I could have taken this very personally
but instead with my new mindset I just
ignored his comment no matter what
people say be confident you are the only
you so you have to own who you are gross
no just your type of neat weird no just
unique ya know
in science class we actually watched a
video about how man became more athletic
by gaining 10 pounds crazy right
ugly no beautiful when people say things
that are be nice to them because they’re
the ones who need it most
instead of being rude or mean back to
them either ones start spreading
positivity and happiness my mom once
told me be a leader and not a follower
you can do the smallest things to make
people happy and completely change the
day but before you can make others love
themselves you have to love yourself
first when people point out your flaws
own them be confident what you have make
them wish that they had a so called flaw
that you used to be ashamed of
now we’re not trying to encourage any
type of bragging you want people to stay
humble but now with social media in our
world when flipped upside down the
technology it’s so easy to get hurt in
smallest ways because who really knows
it feels an opener that’s what we want
you to stand up for yourself stand up
for others and for heaven sake give
someone a compliment once in a while
tell them that they’re smarter than that
they look great when they smile
appreciate and congratulate their them
for their strengths and forget their
clothes be nice to people it’s not that
hard
start the spread of happiness of
positivity like one of our classmates
was in Florida she quickly started to
realize that they’re posting notes all
over town the same post-it notes you
would find in your school desk or in
your pencil case the same exact ones
that you get in trouble for because
you’re supposed to be paying attention
but instead you’re throwing us to your
friend from across the room who knew
that something so irrelevant to changing
the world could be the reason that
someone wakes up the next day the reason
that someone gets out of body puts a
smile on the face an eternal there was
the same or a positive quote reminding
you to keep your head up just small
enough to tell everyone that they’re
loved and that they can get through
another hardship dirty and ever around
town just kept adding to the post-it
notes creating more positivity and one
happiness to be spread everywhere and at
the end of the day I started to think
wow if you ask someone what made you
have you bought yourself today do you
think they’d have an answer maybe they
would but maybe maybe they weren’t told
enough just how amazing they truly are
and maybe they flat-out just don’t
believe it we try to make a video with a
victim of bullying an upstander in our
original idea the bully would act in an
unkind manner and the victim would feel
obsessive themselves in the video we’re
making everything everything just seemed
so fake cheesy and unreal but in real
life bullying is a real issue in your
life is not something to laugh about or
it’s not a joke but while we are in the
process of making it and not a friend
Peyton I realized something everything
that we’re trying to say and you we
could
all we can do is laugh and eventually
crews had to give up on making a serious
video the only time you could actually
do something without laughing your heads
up was to imagine someone hurting action
try to care for them
we noticed that we can’t hurt the ones
we care about easily and that it
actually take it actually take some
tension to do it we’re all human and we
make mistakes but when you care about
someone and you know their story it can
be extremely hard to stay in order mad
at them so we thought if maybe we
started to care about more people and
realize that how they feel matters tuned
it would help the spread of happiness
it’s inspired us to let all the students
time to be free well schooling on the
Maryland we got together with a few
people we made many posters we hung from
mainly by the bathroom years of our
purpose we thought that if we put the
words that everyone’s to here by the
mirrors then people can think those
things while they look at themselves so
they can genuinely understand that they
are enough and that they matter and then
they are worth it you want people to see
that you can’t cave someone if you know
their story
we also hung them on lockers and the
walls for extra reminders that people
here you have someone that cares about
you and write your love back then if I
had the reminders of how I matter in it
and how I should be confident maybe I
wouldn’t have taken the situation so
badly as I did maybe she wouldn’t cared
it up that’s why we want you to realize
how much you matter you want you to be
proud of who you are and we want you to
be the reason someone smile today
[Applause]
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