Running head: SELF INTRODUCTION SPEECH 1 Self introduction speech 4 Self introduction speech Name Institutional Affiliation Introduction 1. Attention getter: Has any one of you gone through a situation that totally changed your perspective about life? 11. Relation to the audience: I believe that most if not all have had instances that changed their views, perception and also their opinions about different things in life. I particularly went through an experience that changed my perspective about life. 111. Through the line of the speech, I will discuss how an incident in a recent trip to Vietnam totally changed my perception about life and has made me a better person since then. 1. Main Point. How a recent visit to Vietnam changed my life A. In a recent trip to Vietnam, an incident happened which completely changed my perspective about life. I came across a small scale trader who was selling portraits that had been painted by hand and out of pity or rather sympathy, I decided to buy the paint in spite of the fact that I did not require it. Since she was carrying a baby on her back, I decided to buy her some oranges for the baby but all the other vendors surrounded me since they all wanted an orange. I found out that I had already handed all the oranges to the vendors but the gesture only warmed my heart rather than irritate me. I was overjoyed by the fact that I was able to put smiles on their faces and thereby changing my perspective about life. 1. First of all the incident taught me to be caring since the kind of gesture towards the vendors taught me that there are certain individuals who lack the basic things that are easily affordable and it is always pivotal to remember those who do are underprivileged in the society. The incident therefore reignited a caring attitude in me and I learnt to always care for those who do not have. 11. Visit to a few villages in the South of Vietnam A. I learnt to appreciate the appreciate the simple things in life 1. My trip to South of Vietnam made me to appreciate the simple things that we often take for granted. In the developed world, almost every child has access to toys and electronics that they often break when angry. The fact that there were many children who could not afford these things and some who have never seen some of the things that we enjoy in the developed world made me to start appreciating the small things in life. I started appreciating all my possessions cognizant of the fact that there are children and adults who lack access to what we consider basic. I therefore undertook to protect and safeguard everything that I owned since there are people somewhere who lack access to most of the things we have in the developed world. B. I learnt to be content and happy of my life 1. The fact that there ...