Good morning everyone!
We have already enjoyed Thanksgiving Day last Thursday. So today I would like to deliver a speech about gratitude. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the last Thursday in November every year in some foreign countries. On Thanksgiving Day, people gather in the hall and hold various celebrations to thank and praise those who have helped themselves in the past year.
In fact, our Chinese nation has for generations advocated to be willing to help others and to repay them with gratitude. As a traditional Chinese saying goes, “If you receive a drop of kindness from others, you should repay it with a gushing spring”. But now most of our students are only child. The doting of their families leads many students to take other people's care for granted. They don't know how to thank and appreciate, but only know how to ask. They even have rebellious and boring feelings towards their families who care so much about themselves. These thoughts and actions are extremely inappropriate.
Students, let's calm down and think carefully. There are so many things in life that we should be grateful! Thank our motherland for giving us room for peaceful growth. Thank our parents for all their efforts to raise us. Thank our teachers for their painstaking and earnest cultivation. Thank our classmates for their sincere concern and help. Thank the kind-hearted people in the society for their care and love for us. We should even thank failures and hardships, because they make us see the hope of success and help to shape a stronger self. With a grateful heart, we will have the golden key to open the door of happiness. With a grateful heart, we will find many beautiful things and emotions, and experience many unusual happiness!
We should start from now on, turn our gratitude into a habit, habitually be friendly to others, habitually invest in learning, and habitually enjoy the things and beautiful scenery around us. Life is so beautiful. Let's devote ourselves to study and life with gratitude and harvest the happiness and joy of success!
That’s all for my speech. Thank you.