1. Everyone here in this room has a motivation, a strong will, pushing them forward. May it
be your future goals which serve as motivation, or..is it your parents? Discipline is the
most basic favor a parent can give to their child. For us, it’s unnecessary, it’s something
to overlook, it’s a restraint on our freedom, some may say.
Did our founding fathers give us freedom so we can defy what is right, and condemn
ourselves to wrongdoing? If your parents hold no control over you, where would you be?
I’d doubt that you would have been sitting here before my eyes, listening to my words.
Because you would be doing what you wanted, where you wanted, and when you wanted.
That is why our society is how it is today. Would 20 elementary school children have
been the victims of a gunman if the gunman’s parents had at least tried to make efforts to
restrain him?
You look over the beauty of discipline because you are kings roaming the land of luxury.
Well, guess what, you’re not special. None of you. Everyone at this school has a potential
and a future set out for them, but don’t you even dare credit yourself for leading a
successful life. I don’t care if you’re a billionaire, a celebrity, or just an average citizen. If
it weren’t for your parents nudging you along, and making sure you did well in school,
you would be nothing. The scum of the society, the bottom of the chain.
Some may say that discipline is too harsh, its too controlling, it ruins one’s creativity.
That depends on how you discipline someone. If your child is doing horrible,
and you’re the one disciplining them, that means your methods are horrible. If your child
does well, then you did well, you did things the right way. But “discipline can cause
rebellion and hatred towards the parent.” Fine. Kick them out. If they don’t need parents,
they could survive alone, couldn’t they? You couldn’t survive one day without the
support of an adult. Sure, you’ve got money in your account…but do you have a credit
card? I’m not saying you have to like discipline, but at least you respect it. Most likely,
your parents have gone through more than you have. If your parents yell at you for doing
something wrong, that isn’t going to cause your life to self detonate and explode into
thirty million parts of your soul, but it’s more like battle scars. You learn, you move on.
So get the job done or else you’re just an average kid, you’re useless. Why would I hire
the person who has no self-discipline? No respect for those of higher authority? Get out.
I don’t need you, just like you didn’t need your parents.
Discipline got you here. Discipline is what kept you going in school, life, and all future
prospects. If you think you got here by yourself, tell me that again in twenty years, where
would you be?