演講稿的格式由稱謂、開場白、主幹、結尾等幾部分組成。在當下社會，很多地方都會使用到演講稿，還是對演講稿一籌莫展嗎？下面是小編收集整理的英語口語演講稿，歡迎閱讀與收藏。
英語口語演講稿1
尊敬的各位老師、同學們：
大家早上好！
我的名字叫xxx，今年12歲了。這一次，我獲得了“全國中國小生英語口語大賽”一等獎，感到非常辛運，在這裏，我要感謝我的父母，是他們給我創造了安靜的環境讓我更好的練習口語；感謝我所在的三義裏國小，是這所學校給我了這次參賽的機會；感謝我的班主任程老師，是她精心指導我怎樣說英語；感謝我們辦的全班同學，是他們一直在支持我，鼓勵我。謝謝你們！
我從英語是全班最差的同學，變成了一個獲得過“全國中國小生英語口語大賽”一等獎的英語小天才，我無數次的不想再堅持練下去，我用自己與同學們玩的時間，在練字。我是多麼希望像別的同學一樣，快活的玩着。我就像一個還沒有完全學會走路的'小孩，一路走的磕磕絆絆，可是，我用自己的毅力克服了自己，慢慢的我去認真地走好每一步，最終我是成功的，我是快樂的！
此時此刻我捧着手中的獎，心裏感慨萬千。雖然並不多，但我想這每一個獎的背後都是各位同學日夜苦戰，用自己的勤奮努力和老師家長們的付出換來的。我不想說我們累，更不想說我們苦。因爲我們是青春、瀟灑的90後，風雨過後我們依然會展露笑容，今日的累是爲了我們明日的輝煌，爲了我們肩上那不可推卸的歷史重任。我相信我們會做的更好。
不過，獲得了獎並不意味着就達到了我們的目標而可以停滯不前。在人生旅途中，獲獎只是一種助推器，而不是最根本的動力器。我們要如何前進？答案就掌握在我們自己的手中。所以，獎並不是我們最終的目標，而是我們前進路途中的一股動力。我們應正確看待這種獎勵和榮譽。不能因爲一時取得好的成績而驕傲，也不能因爲成績一時不理想而氣餒。學習就如逆水行舟，不進則退。只有不斷地努力，不驕不躁，認真對待學習，不輕言放棄，看淡得失。以一顆平常心，踏實勤奮。才能取得更優異的成績，才能創造更美好的未來。當然，沒有獲得獎的同學更不能放棄。要努力起來，哪怕最終沒有成功，最起碼自己努力了，也無愧於心。
作爲一名學生，面對獲獎，我除了些許的緊張和好奇，更多的是一份坦然，我們相信努力就會成功。在此，我也想送上我衷心的祝福，希望你們能放飛自己的理想，創出更美的輝煌。謝謝大家！
謝謝大家！
英語口語演講稿2
sponsibility of building the future of our country?
the cynics say the college students are the pampered lost generation, which would cringe at the slightest discomfort. but the cynics are wrong. the college students i see are eagerly learning about how to live independently. we help each other clean the dormitory, go shopping and bargain together, and take part time jobs to supplement our pocket money.
the cynics say we care for nothing other than grades; and we neglect the need for character cultivation. but again, the cynics are wrong. we care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth. last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer.
as college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives. we all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country. i believe in all my fellow classmates. though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish. i believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities. we are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place. i believe in our future.
英語口語演講稿3
Once upon a time, there was a sad elephant. He was dirty and stinky, because he could not reach to wash his back. All the other animals didn’t play with him because he was smelly.
Elephant sat under a tree, where nobody could see him. He started to cry. His head was hanging down, crying big tears. He sat and cried for days. One day, when his tears had dried up, he went to itch his head and he felt a bump on his back. Then he noticed his nose had stretched because it had got wet with all the crying and it was now a long trunk which had hit him on his back.
He went to the river and got his trunk, put it in the water and sucked the water up. Then he sprayed his back with water.
All the other animals came over to him and said “you are so clean and smell so lovely. Do you want to play with us?”
The elephant was so happy and said “yes.”
The End.
英語口語演講稿4
大家好，我是吉首大學一名大四的旅遊管理的學生，旅遊管理的同學們在哪裏看看好嗎?（姓名介紹）。我不想說自己作爲一個嘉賓站在這裏，我想我就是你們其中的一員一份子來說說，英語口語的學習。在此之前，我們自己來說說英語口語中你們說遇到的問題，有1、沒有語言環境2、發音不標準3、
看看有遇到外國人想搭訕的？都遇到什麼情況?沒有朋友之間你推我，我推你，最後誰都沒有去成，2、有沒有自己心裏鼓起巨大勇氣，激動了老半天，心臟都快蹦出來了，結果老外從你身邊走了。3、有木有默默地飄過的生活中有許許多多這樣的情況，特別是在張家界這樣的旅遊城市，每天都會遇到老外，每天不知道有多少這樣子聯繫英語口語的機會，但永遠飄過我們的身邊。所以面對大家說的沒有語言環境或者是練習沒有好拍檔，我個人認爲第一點也是最重要的一點抓住你身邊的每一可以練習的機會。人生不是沒有機會，而是機遇來到你的身邊的時候，你沒有準備好。
今天，我們的整個新閃亮團隊給大家帶來一次這種學習的英語口語的機會，不僅人我們報一大堆的英語證書，爲了和還可以和老外自由的溝通。讓我看看向過四六級又想學好英語口語的人有多少。我就結合自身的經歷，練習英語口語我一路的旅行一路的練習。1、抓住每一個溝通外語的機會，我自己呢就是搭訕老外，只要是外國人就不會放過機會，……………………（尼泊爾，荷蘭）2、積極運用肢體語言…………3、找美國人或者年輕人 4、學會用自己已有的詞彙表達（迪拜，阿拉伯塔酒店，又稱迪拜帆船酒店）5學會猜（美國，湘雅醫院）聽了那麼多事情你們就一定覺得我的'英語很好，如果用中國應試教育的標準來說，我確實比較 low，我高中三年就大學聯考英語及格而且是那種擦邊球那種的，每次一做題目我都覺得正確答案有問題，題目明明是說我學到了什麼，我學到了A正確答案確是告訴我學到了B。學到了什麼不是學生說了算嗎？反倒老師成我們肚子肥蟲知道了。
對於英語口語一路的旅行一路的練習，旅行過程中處處有各種各樣和老外搭訕學英語的機會。人生旅途的機遇也是如此，你和各種各樣的機遇擦肩而過，有時候或許算不上機會但你卻創造了機會。有時候特顯眼的機會擺在你面前你卻不知道。今天我們新閃亮就帶了這麼一個讓大家不僅向前一個同學一樣可以拿到四六級高分，而且可以在人生的旅途中面對外國人想說就說。加入新閃亮就是個機會，
你見，或者不見我，機會就在這裏，裏不悲不喜
你願，或者不願意，機會還在這裏，不來不去
你來，或者不不來，機會依舊就在這裏，不增不減
你跟，或者不跟我，選擇就在你的手裏，我不捨不棄來等你們來新閃亮的大家庭裏，者讓新閃亮住進你的心裏，默然相愛，寂靜喜歡
我們期待你們加入新閃亮，抓住這個機遇，抱着你的證書，打開你的口腔，我們一起來說，一起來練習，一起來進步，一起來成長。最後我們玩一個遊戲，請伸出我們右手在伸出我們的左手，兩手掌心不斷碰撞在一起熱烈歡迎（*******）。
英語口語演講稿5
Ladies and Gentlemen:
There are more than friendship feeling making a person warmth? Good wine is rare, buddy harder. Friend is friend, and none can anything replace, absolutely nothing can describe - is all of the world, also cannot match friendship rose fragrance and beautiful.
Friends, or the world's most pleasant things. Friendship, is the world's most cannot lack of things. On a depressed people, friends, or even an encouraging than all the medicine are useful.
Friends good relationships between both friendship, including understanding and appreciation, trust, tolerance, sacrifice... Many virtues. Friendship is the rain is the dark umbrella, flax, sail boat is the way the wind, rugged mountain trail armrest, friendship is one which isn't locked room, you can always knocking into; Friendship is the key that can help you open your door.
However friendship is not available, is to keep the friendship of standard reduce some can really ChenDeQi friends or very rare. Just think, if have money handling a trusted friend, you can have a few people? In your CengDeng frustrated or disease trouble also willing customarily6 wrapped and timely help a friend again several people? You go out in the outside occasion for your family will add caregivers and how many? Take a further step drawing-room serving those MoNi in mind, can maintain long in the fall, and there were several people? The world is a friend of mine, but although no waving lantern to find, but he is like sand gold rush, and still need long time closing. Once the true friendship, can cast bronze jian, never back with the turn.
Adversity of friendship. Well, in trouble, was suffering from a friend's help then to appear particularly valuable. Sometimes, even if it is a dead concerns well-meaning eyes, will also be like a bunch of coals, in snow and ice in sending you warm. When you were successful and proud head, the friendship will like a pot of water, hood, put your head spilled to pour awake.
Yes, friendship is perfected, is urgently needed, friendship is the sunlight avenue, more rugged climb to hike on the mutual walker.
Friendship is a tree, with sincere and devotion to pour out, with trust and tolerance to cultivation. Jealousy and suspicion is poison, can make the roots of friendship, loss of life leaves focal green.
Friendship is intimate conversation, is silenced's care. Friendship is never requiting paying, is unrestrained equal communication. Friendship is understanding, respect, from an open heart into another open heart. Friendship is expelled loneliness and despair of power.
Friendship of joy is active. A person, though fame prominent, zhong twining waist, if there is no one can open thoracic forbidden by heart a heart of a true friend, ultimately sad pity. No friendship of life, is incomplete life, not worthy of envy.
No friendship, no friend of life, was a gloomy life, is a failure of life.
Thank you!
英語口語演講稿6
good afternoon ，ladies and gentlemen!
i’m very honored to stand here and give you a short speech! to begin with ,i want to ask a question everybody dream a good dream last night? actually ,today i want to talk about dream with you. of course, what i want to talk is not a dream you have last night,but a dream—— about life.
everyone has dreams about life, different dreams at different life stage,and we need dreams to support us. dreams are like the stars we never reach in the sky,but like most mariners(水手),we can chart our course by them. with the dream,we have a direction,with a direction, we were no longer the dream, there is hope,with hope, we have the strength to fight.
i have a dream: to be a doctor.，because doctor may relieve the pain of patients. may let the human change the health. at the same time, i believed that, those who help others may be able to obtain joyfully. therefore, i hoped in the near future ,i might be a doctor.
but i know，life is tough,and there are always ups and downs, maybe we fail in the way to our aims,and we may feel depressed ,whenever at this time, the dream in our heart can always comfort us, encourage us ,and support us to move ahead .
young!fortunately, i am young now. just due to it, i know that nothing is impossible.i firmly believe that nothing can stand in my way. if i can't realize my dream,it result from that i haven't work harder enough and i won't find other excuses. if no people believe you, you can make it to prove that you are right. if you think the god haven't blessed you and there is no truth here, you can become the god and create the truth.
英語口語演講稿7
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen:
Today i'm very happy to be here to share with you some of my thoughts onthe topic of globalization. and first of all, i would like to mention an eventin our recent history.
Thirty years ago, american president richard nixon made an epoch-makingvisit to china, a country still isolated at that time. premier zhou enlai saidto him, "your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world - twenty-fiveyears of no communication." ever since then, china and america have exchangedmany handshakes of various kinds. the fundamental implication of this example isthat the need and desire to communicate across differences in culture andideology is not only felt by the two countries but by many other nations aswell.
As we can see today, environmentalists from different countries are makingjoint efforts to address the issue of global warming, economists are seekingsolutions to financial crises that rage in a particular region but nonethelesscripple the world's economy, and diplomats and politicians are getting togetherto discuss the issue of combating terrorism. peace and prosperity has become acommon goal that we are striving for all over the world. underlying this mightytrend of globalization is the echo of e. m. forster's words, "only connect!"
With the it revolution taking place, traditional boundaries of humansociety fall away. our culture, politics, society and commerce are being sloshedinto a large melting pot of humanity. in this interlinked world, there are nooutsiders, for a disturbance in one place is likely to impact other parts of theglobe. we have begun to realize that a world divided cannot endure.
China is now actively integrating into the world. our recent entry to thewto is a good example. for decades, we have taken pride in being self-reliant,but now we realize the importance of participating in and contributing to abroader economic order. from the precarious role in the world arena to ourpresent wto membership, we have come a long way.
But what does the way ahead look like? in some parts of the world peopleare demonstrating against globalization. are they justified then, in criticizingthe globalizing world? instead of narrowing the gap between the rich and thepoor, they say, globalization enables developed nations to swallow thedeveloping nations' wealth in debts and interest. globalization, they argue,should be about an earnest interest in every other nation's economic health.
We are reminded by karl marx that capital goes beyond national borders andeludes control from any other entity. this has become a reality. multinationalcorporations are seeking the lowest cost, the largest market, and the mostfavorable policy. they are often powerful lobbyists in governmentdecision-making, ruthless expansionists in the global market place and adevastating presence to local businesses.
For china, still more challenges exist. how are we going to ensure a smoothtransition from the planned economy to a market-based one? how to construct alegal system that is sound enough and broad enough to respond to the needs of adynamic society? how to maintain our cultural identity in an increasinglyhomogeneous world? and how to define greatness in our rise as a peace-lovingnation? globalization entails questions that concern us all.
Like many young people my age in china, i want to see my country getprosperous and enjoying respect in the international community. but it seems tome that mere patriotism is not just enough. it is vitally important that weyoung people do more serious thinking and broaden our mind to bigger , there might never be easy answers to those issues such as globalization,but to take them on and give them honest thinking is the first step to beprepared for both opportunities and challenges coming our way. and this is alsoone of the thoughts that came to me while preparing this speech. thank you.
英語口語演講稿8
Can money buy happiness
Dear audience and judges,
My topic is "Can money buy happiness".
As we all know, money can buy all the goods in our life, no matter how huge it is. A spaceship, for example, if you really feel your bank account can afford it.
However, when it comes to love, satisfaction, happiness and many other human feelings, it is completely not like this. The result of many recent research can support my point. They said that, though people received far more money than ever, their standard for happiness also rised. That means, if you had one yuan, a car might be your dream, but if you had one million, you might consider owning a space trip. So when people always hope for those they can not afford, they will push themselves to an unhappy situation.
Anyhow, money equal wealthy in life but not happiness in mind. Only by changing our attitude to money and enjoying every day, can we obtain a truely happy future!
英語口語演講稿9
good evening, honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen.
it’s my great pleasure to stand here to present my speech—change the world, change ourselves.
it’s noticable that western holidays are becoming increasingly popular day by day, while chinese traditional festivals are being somewhat neglected. not long before about 10 doctors in beijing university and qinghua unversity announced that we should reject the invasion of western holidays ,because they regard western holidays as an challenge against our traditional festivals and culture.
frankly speaking, i don’t quite agree with ed, we should never neglect or even discard our traditonal festivals as china boasts a brilliant history and splendid traditions. (examples) why can’t we absorb the meaningful western holidays and culture. there are obvious reasons why some western holidays are so popular in china. on the one hand, some of the western holidays which we chinese don’t have are reasonable and meaningful, such as father’s day and april fool’s day etc. on the other hand,the prevalence of globalization enables western culture to prevail in china. overwhelmed by such a trend,chinese unconsiciously get involved in western holidays and culture.
with the further development of the whole world, the cultural communication between different countries and nations becomes faster and more and more important. we are indeed from different nations, but we are the citizens of the same world, so the outstanding culture of different nations is the commom wealth of everyone on the only way for us to protect our traditional culture is to reject the foreign culture? the answer is definitely no. what we ought to do is to spare no effort to educate chinese to get to know and treasure our splendid traditions instead of rejecting foreign culture. only by educating can we set our confidence and belief towards our culture. only by educating can we preserve and promote the wealth that our ancesters left for us.
at last i’d like to share a famouse saying of gandhi with all of you ,that is:if you want to change the world, then you must change yourself first.”
英語口語演講稿10
my name is , i m a girl that has a lot of hobbies, including reading, drawing, and playing badminton. i usually woke up very early in the morning, because ma-ki-ng breakfast is also one of my hobbies. i love ma-ki-ng breakfast to my family, since this gives me a feeling of warmness. when i come back from school, homework is the first thing i will do. then is my hobby time, i usually go out with my friends and plays badminton; after that, if i have time i might read a book. mystery book is my favorite genre. in loves the feeling of guessing what will happen next. if i guessed right i would feel glory and proud of myself. even though i guessed wrong, i can learn from my mistake. in the world of books, i find the real side of me; smart, and be willing to learn.
英語口語演講稿11
mother was playing with her lovely daughter about 3 years old on the playground. The little girl was interested in playing the swing but didn’t dare to try. The mother encouraged her by saying, “Come on, baby! I believe you can do it! Believe in yourself!” With her mother’s encouragement, the girl finally climbed onto the swing. “Yeah! I can do it! Mum, help me fly higher!” she cried happily, and her laughter filled the air. I see that self-confidence is a key factor in problem-solving. With self-confidence, I can overcome difficulties. With self-confidence, I can surpass limits. With self-confidence, I can go beyond myself.
Here, ladies and gentle, allow me to share with you my experience. I love English and now, I can stand on this stage to express my ideas in English. But when I first entered into the college, I was such a shy boy that I couldn’t speak Chinese fluently in the crowd, let alone show my English in public. In the second school year, I was assigned to be one of the hosts at an English Competition. I had no experience in hosting at that time so it was really a challenge to me. I didn’t know what to say, and even how to step on the stage? However, I decided to take the assignment since after 2-year of English study, I became more confident in myself. Also, teachers’ remarks encouraged me, “If you are not self-confident, it is impossible to make others believe in you. If you cannot go beyond your limits, it is impossible to make any improvement.” I accomplished the task at last, and the success confirms to myself that I can go beyond my limits. I can surpass myself. Yes, I can.
With self-confidence, one is not sure to win, but without self-confidence, one will lose for sure. Today, Standing here, participating in this competition, for me it is also a challenge. Am I sure to win the first prize? To tell the truth, not really. Then, am I confident to compete with the other participants? Absolutely. I believe in myself. I believe I will try my best to overcome all difficulties. I am well-ready to face the challenge. I am quite self-confident that I can again go beyond myself.
英語口語演講稿12
Dear teachers and classmates:
Good morningafternoon.
I am very glad to make a speech here this time, I'd like to talk something about my hobbies.
Everyone has hobbies. My mother likes watching TV. My father likes chess. Many of my schoolmates like playing football. So what are my hobbies? Now let me tell you about my hobbies.
I have many hobbies, such as sports, singing, playing the computer games and reading books, but learningEnglish is my favourite.
Everyday, I read English following the tapes. Sometimes, I watch English cartoons.
On the weekend, I often go to the English corner. By talking with different people there, I have made more and more friends as well as improved my oral English.
I hope I can travel around the world some day. I want to go to America to visit Washington Monument, I also want to go to London, because England is where English language developed. If I can ride my bike in Cambridge university, I will be very happy.
I hope I can speak English with everyone in the world. I'll introduce China to them, such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and Dongying.
I know, Rome was not built in a day. I believe that after hard study, one day I can speak English very well.
If you want to be loved, you should learn to love . So I believe as I love English everyday , it will love me too
There is more I like to do. There is more I want to say. Maybe I can tell you more next time. That’s all, thank you!
英語口語演講稿13
Good morning!
Greeting the cool morning breeze, soaking with warm sunshine, in this bright, warm and mature in August, we brought glory and dream, with pride and gratification, students studying together in the Holy Land, the cradle of the pillars of growth - - Experimental junior Sheyang County, where our new life began sailing.
Autumn is a fruitful season, we will gain fruitful results here; autumn is a season of planting, we are here to sow new hope. In such a beautiful season, we are very honored to be a junior training camp experiment Sheyang County soldiers. First of all, allow me on behalf of all trained soldiers, to spend a week with our military training about time for us to pay a hard training instructors have my highest respect and heartfelt thanks!
We bring excitement, with pride, with schools, teachers and parents the expectations of even more beautiful with our ideal vision and desire, to our dream of experimental junior high school. During these three years, we need to have a healthy body, good quality and overcome the psychological difficulties of courage and determination. The school organized military training for our activities, not only to improve our constitution, is to cultivate our indomitable will, indomitable spirit, broad mind love, hard style. The excellent quality of life in our three years of junior high school and even their lives will have a positive impact.
Rapid development of modern society, competition and challenges are not far away from us, strengthen national defense awareneof national defense, enhance sense of historical responsibility and mission, is our contemporary students must take every sacred duty.
Military training in order to make this work a success, we pledge:
1, obey the orders and commands
Obey orders, a soldier's duty, in military training in, no matter how hard or tired, whether wind or rain, we will never retreat, every action to the command.
2, study hard, honing their determination
Military time is short, but the style of the military, the military's will and character of the military is we will never be finished, and we will treasure the precious time of the week, with an open mind to learn the instructors, Basic Training, honing their will shape their own good character, for future study and life lay a solid ideological foundation.
3, transmission and spread of consolidating the results of
We believe that the military training will live in our lives left an indelible memories linger. We will learn the military training to good thinking, good style, and continue to promote the heritage, throughout our entire life.
Students, military training is honing the will of the melting pot, is a challenging training grounds, let us work together. Teachers, instructors, and please believe, we must Go!
My speech is over, thank you.
英語口語演講稿14
good morning/evening/afternoon, ladies and gentlemen :
today, my speech is about talents,in my opionion, talents are indispensable in nowadays society. as is known to all that the fight among countries is actually the fight among talents.
first, i'd like to define the word"talent" in my idea, a talent is one person who is good at or expertised in some or multiple areas. nowadays, as the world developing goes on , if one country want to rank top or do a good job in the world, the country must have many example, china, the biggest developing country in the world, in the past 100 years, is always invaded by other countries, why ,the reason is that china at that time had not so many talents. if they had anti-intrusion leader talents in the war, needless to say,they would have beat those big they had talents in weapons manufacturing, nodody dares to provoke ver, nowadays, it's a totally different situation, china has become powerfulin all over the world, why ? because there are many talents serving the country, the civilians become more and more and more people go to university,more and more people come to receive further education. so what is that in return,talents in army protect our country from invasion, talents in commerce help make our economy keep in improving, talents in aerospace make the world see chinese manned spacecraft flying. talents in sports make china rank the first in the olympic games......
to sum up, talents will play a more and more impoetant role in the world, if one country intends to flourish, he must foster talents as many as they can ,that's all,thank you.
早上/晚上/下午好,女士們,先生們:
今天,我的演講是關於人才,在我opionion,人才在當今社會是不可或缺的。衆所周知,國家間的鬥爭實際上是人才之間的戰鬥。
首先,我想定義“人才”這個詞在我的想法,才能是一個人誰是擅長或公司部分或多個領域。如今,隨着世界發展,如果一個國家想要排名頂部或世界上做得很好,國家必須有很多人才。例如,中國,世界上最大的發展中國家,在過去的120xx年裏,總是被其他國家的入侵,當時爲什麼,原因是中國沒有如此多的`人才。如果他們anti-intrusion戰爭領袖人才,不用說,他們會打敗那些大國。如果他們在武器製造人才,nodody敢惹我們。然而,如今,這是一個完全不同的情況下,中國已成爲全世界powerfulin,爲什麼?因爲有很多人才服務於國家,平民越來越有文化。越來越多的人上大學,越來越多的人開始接受進一步的教育。在軍隊是什麼,作爲回報,才能保護我們的國家免受入侵,人才在商業的幫助使我們的經濟保持改善,人才航空讓世界看到中國載人飛船飛行。人才在運動使中國排名第一個在奧運會上……
總之,人才將起到越來越impoetant在世界上的角色,如果一個國家想要蓬勃發展,他必須儘可能多培養人才,這是所有,謝謝你。
英語口語演講稿15
law opened the bottom drawer of my sisters bureau and lifted out a tissue-wrapped package. this, he said, is not a slip. this is lingerie. he discarded the tissue and handed me the slip.
it was exquisite, silk, handmade and trimmed with a cobweb of lace. the price tag with an astronomical figure on it was still attached.
jan bought this the first time we went to new york, at least 8 or 9 years ago. she never wore it. she was saving it for a special occasion.
well, i guethis is the occasion.
he took the slip from me and put it on the bed, with the other clothes we were taking to the mortician. his hands lingered on the soft material for a moment, then he slammed the drawer shut and turned to me, dont ever save anything for a special occasion. every day you re alive is a special occasion.
i remembered those words through the funeral and the days that followed when i helped him and my niece attend to all the sad chores that follow an unexpected death. i thought about them on the plane returning to california from the midwestern town where my sisters family lives. i thought about all the things that she hadnt seen or heard or done. i thought about the things that she had done without realizing that they were special.
im still thinking about his words, and theyve changed the weeds in the garden. im spending more time with my family and friends and letime in committee meetings. whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experience to savour, not endure. im trying to recognize these moment now and cherish them.
im not saving anything; we use our good china and crystal for every special. event such as losing a pound, getting the sink unstopped, the first camellia blossom… i wear my good blazer to the market if i feel like it. my theory is if i look prosperous, i can shell out $$28. 49 for one small bag of groceries without wincing. im not saving my good perfume for special parties; clerks in hardware stores and tellers in banks have noses that function as well as my party going friends.
someday and one of these days are losing their grip on my vocabulary. if its worth seeing or hearing or doing, i want to see and hear and do it now. im not sure what my sister wouldve done had she know that she wouldnt be here for the tomorrow we all take for granted.
i think she would have called family members and a few close friends. she might have called a few former friends to apologize, and mend fences for past squabbles. i like to think she would have gone out for a chinese dinner, her favorite food. im guessing. ill never know.
its those little things left undone that would make me angry if i knew that my hours were limited. angry because i put off seeing good friends whom i was going to get in touch with someday. angry because i hadnt written certain letters that i intended to write one of these days. angry and sorry that i didnt tell my husband and daughter often enough how much i truly love them.
im trying very hard not to put off, hold back, or save anything that would add laughter and luster to our lives. and every morning when i open my eyes, i tell myself that every day, every minute, every breath truly, is... a gift from god.
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to improve my oral English. Thank you