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[yourlocalavian]

Soooo yk my speech that I wrote on Gen Z anxiety??

Welllllll... I'm competing in a competition with it tomorrow and Tuesday (yayyyy more competitionsssss... why meeeee-)

But I thought yall might wanna see it cause i think most my moots are in Gen Z and y'all might relate to this kind of stuff, sooo... I decided to post it on here :)

TW: talks a lot about standards, insecurities, world violence, school shootings, etc.

Also please don't repost this 🙏 (reblogs are fine I just don't want people claiming my words as theirs if yk what I mean hehe)

Understanding Anxiety

(Dont mind the situations next to quotes lol)

Close your eyes for a moment, judges, and imagine this: alarms ringing before sunrise, notifications from social media piling and piling and piling up before breakfast has even been served, a world that never stops asking for more. Now, open your eyes. For many members of Gen Z, those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, this isn’t a dramatic exaggeration. It’s simply a standard Tuesday for us. Each generation has faced forms of anxiety, from economic stress to world conflict, but teens and young adults of today's generation are reporting levels of anxiety unlike anything recorded before. Multiple mental-health studies are finding that Gen Z is rapidly becoming our most anxious generation, not because we’re “weak”, but because the world we are being handed is quickly changing in overwhelming ways. And today, we’re going to talk about how it happens through two main focus points, over-beautification, and over-information.

Gen Z has grown up in a culture where beauty is no longer just celebrated, it’s demanded. In a world where filters erase flaws and status is measured in likes, they face the crushing weight of over-beautification, the endless pursuit of perfection in a life designed to be imperfect. They make teens feel pressured to be perfect when, in reality, we were all made imperfect.

The obsession with appearance isn’t just about confidence, it’s about status. Social Media has turned appearance into a competition, where name brands, expensive lifestyles, and “perfect” bodies are used as proof of value. And when Gen Z is constantly shown these images, the message becomes clear: if you don't keep up, you’re not good enough. That pressure alone pushes people past their limits, fueling both anxiety and depression.

I, personally, have felt this. I once saw a girl online who looked flawless, and without realizing it, I felt envious of someone I didn’t even know. Days later, she posted a video doing a no-filters trend, one by one removing her filters and revealing that what I had envied wasn’t even real. She was still beautiful of course, but those characteristics of hers I had been jealous of? It was all fake. That moment made me realize how often we, as a society, compare ourselves to illusions.

And it isn’t just me being affected. A study from Girlguiding UK found that 66% of girls feel that they aren’t pretty enough (Angela Salt, Girlguiding UK). Another study by BodyLogicMD reports that 24% of boys experience anxiety over their height (BodyLogicMD). These standards being implemented on this generation hurt everybody, because the ideal body that everyone is striving for doesn’t actually exist. None of us will ever have flawless skin, or be the desired height. We just have to learn to be satisfied with the body we have been blessed with.

As humans, we all strive for perfection, longing for the ideal, to be the best of the best. With people on social media longing for status and the perfect body, the divide between real and ideal is becoming more and more blurry, and the fact that people are being told that they're not perfect enough is only raising anxiety rates tenfold.

Another major stress factor is, put simply, over-information. Growing up in the digital age means growing up with the entire world in our pockets - every tragedy, every crisis, every act of violence just a swipe away. News no longer is something we observe from a distance; it's something we live alongside every day.

From an early age, Gen Z has been exposed to global suffering - wars, shootings, disasters, injustice - all unfolding in real time. And when the human brain is exposed to too much tragedy too often, it stops processing it. It shuts down, and shock turns to silence. We stop reacting, not because we don’t care, but because caring constantly would overwhelm us. Constant exposure to news is like an endlessly filling water balloon. It stretches for a while, but it will eventually be unable to hold anymore… and burst.

A hundred years ago, people weren’t exposed to tragedy like this. News traveled slowly, and when it arrived, people had time to react, to mourn, to feel. Today, Tragedy is consistent. If you’ve been hearing about school shootings since you were six, then by the time you’re sixteen, that kind of news barely registers anymore. Emotionally, we go numb. But numbness doesn’t mean we aren’t affected. Our bodies still carry those emotions, even when we don't feel them. And when emotions aren’t processed in healthy ways, they find other exits, hence, anxiety.

According to the National Institute of mental health, around 30% of Gen Z girls and 20% of Gen Z boys have an anxiety disorder (National Institute of Mental Health). But why is that? As the book the Anxious Generation explains, Gen Z has grown up alongside 9/11, wars, school shootings, political division, Covid-19, all within a single lifetime (Haidt, The Anxious Generation). That kind of constant exposure takes a toll, resulting in those beyond alarming stats.

Humans were built to live in the moment, not to carry the weight of the entire world on our shoulders every day. But despite this, in this age of over-information, Gen Z is being bombarded nonstop, and the result is a generation that feels everything, yet doesn’t know how to release it in healthy ways.

In the end, Gen Z’s anxiety is not coming from nowhere. It is being shaped by a world of over-beautification that convinces us that we must be flawless to be perfect, and over-information that asks us to emotionally process conflicts happening all across the world every single day. I know this because I live with it. I have high anxiety myself, and I've learned that while we can’t always control the world around us, we can control how we respond to it. Some things that I’ve found helps me are, simply, taking a break from screens, spending time outside, or talking to someone that I trust about how I'm feeling. Because anxiety doesn’t mean that Gen Z is broken, it means we’re overwhelmed. And if we can acknowledge the pressure we’re under, challenge the fake illusions we’re shown, and give ourselves permission to slow down, then maybe we can stop simply surviving our lives and start actually living them.

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Ta-daaaa :D

I accidentally made two of my judges (and my mom) cry when I read this speech at a 4H competition yesterday... Oops

Anyways hope yall liked it :3 lmk if there's any more TWs I should add

[rabbitxcastle]

How to generate speech?

You ever just like. Get into a situation that you were not prepared for and totally loose track of what to respond with?

I was on the bus this morning, and all of the drivers know to expect me (the routes recently got changed up so I had to re-introduce myself to all of them) and this guy gets on. I was zoned out enjoying the bus ride, and the driver (Beverly) asked me if he was my aide. I did not know this man. He had told her that he was my aide to try and receive a free ride. He kept winking at me and nodding, so I just asked "yes?". Beverly then asked if I knew him and I said no. She kicked him off and he swore at us while leaving.

It was very uncomfortable, obviously, but I did what I always do, and just repeated something when I was caught off guard with nothing to say. I wish that wasn't a problem so often. If I could gain one skill that allistics have, it would be to create words at a moment's notice. Or respond in an original way at all, not mimick exactly what someone else did or said.

My mom has learned over the years to know that me mimicking her is usually a "yes". If she asks "would you like pasta for dinner" and I say "pasta" that is usually a yes. While my written words are typically pretty ok, the verbal ones aren't always that on par.

Thank you for listening to my rant. I had thoughts regarding this mornings very strange interaction.

[infoglitch]

The chant of the ambitious

Ambition, it is the thing that pushes a person to do what they want.

However to find their ambition one must look at their innate beliefs and their skills and talents.

When a person has an ambition, the more it is fed the hotter it burns, and the more it burns the more their hearts are strong enough to face the world and burn through their problems, not go around them, but burn through them, enveloping them and making the pain fuel for their ambition.

But what is the ultimate goal? To burn out? Not exactly, the ultimate goal, the truth of ambition, is to burn, so hot, so bright, that it causes a chain reaction and ignites other people's ambition until the world is burning with the ambitions of all, burning so hot, so bright, they rival not even the sun, but a nova. 

That is the ultimate goal, that is the truth, and I will not stop till all who have an ambition, a desire, are burning as bright as they can.

When the world is cinders, it will not have burned to death, instead it shall birth a new age, where the fire is fierce and pushes everyone to reach GREATNESS.

DO NOT FALTER, DO NOT FEAR, LIGHT THAT FIRE IN YOUR HEART, SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD SO THEY MAY IGNITE THEIR OWN.

BURN AND INSPIRE, GO FORTH AND IGNITE THE WORLD IN GLORIOUS AMBITION!

That is the will of the fire, that is the will of the human heart!

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[thefancyfoxtrot]

What my graduation speech should've been:

I graduated high school about 2.5 years ago, and I was asked to speak during graduation due to my placement in my class.  As I was going through my hard drive, I found the three versions of my speech I made.  The first was the rough draft, the second was the finished version, and the third was the incredibly shortened version I had to give.  By the time I made the third version, I was so mad that I had to keep cutting things out that I just gave up trying to make a point and tried making it as entertaining as possible.

But...I read through the original speech I wanted to give, and I liked it so much more.  So, here it is:

Hello seniors, parents, friends, and siblings that were forced to come here.  Today is a day of celebration.  Today is the day that we seniors have been looking forward to ever since we started senior year.  Today is the day of our graduation.  Of course, I’m sure you already knew that.  I mean, you’re all here, unless you were looking for the Taylor Swift concert, in which case she’s currently in Massachusetts…please don’t ask me why I know that.  As I was saying, today’s the day of our graduation and the start of the rest of our lives.  It won’t be long until we walk across this stage and find our place in the path unwinding, moving us forward in the great Circle of Life.

Before I go any further, I want you all to do something for me.  Close your eyes and think back.  Way back.  Back to a time before Lake Central.  Back to when we were a lot younger.  Do you remember all the crazy fads we were into?  Pokémon, Hot Wheels, Barbies, Brittany Spears…before Kevin Federline.  Do you remember all of that?  Can you believe that was all twelve years ago?  Look how far we’ve come.  Granted, some of us are still into the old fads, as we all saw from senior banquet, but we’ve come a long way from days of Disney and Nick Jr.

Now, as we were growing up, we didn’t know who we were.  We didn’t know the difference between right and wrong.  Most importantly, we couldn’t comprehend a lot of the complex questions that we worry about today…like exactly what Lady Gaga tries to wear.  Some of us still can’t answer that today.  But either way, we were young and inexperienced.  We had to learn everything about the world, and we had to slowly grow into the people we are now.

It wasn’t an easy journey, oh no.  We had so many trials to go through.  Learning how to ride a bike, figuring out how to reach the cookie jar without the parents knowing, and school.  Do you remember how excited we were when we started our first day of school?  It’s almost strange to think about…all those years ago, when we were so small…that we were actually excited for the first day of school.  But we quickly learned as we went through elementary school, middle school, and finally, high school.  We overcame the obstacles, we hopefully learned a lot, and we drove our families just a little bit crazy.  It’s been quite the experience.

But I can’t help but ask the question, exactly what did we gain from that experience?  Yes, we learned something and had the fun of driving our families insane, but thinking about it, what did we really gain?  Well, ever since the first day of school, we’ve been making friends, creating memories, and building relationships.  We built the foundation for a strong social life to help us in future years.  I remember a great man once posed the question, “Can we build it?”  Well, after years of building a solid social life, I am proud to say that “Yes, we can.”

I find it almost impossible to believe that I knew some people when they were only three or so feet tall.  I can still remember that first day of kindergarten, sitting at the white oval table and thinking, ‘I’m all alone…’ We all had that thought at some point, but it wasn’t long until we made friends.  We might not have realized it then, but we were meeting the people who would be with us for the next thirteen years of our lives.  We were meeting the same people who would laugh with us, cry with us, injure themselves with us, and stay up all night talking about nothing that really makes sense with us.  It was more than just two people meeting; it was the start of a great friendship that would give us so many great memories.  Some memories would be fun, some would be sad, and some will make us shake our heads and ask ‘Why?’  But, whether our friends gave us great memories or not, we could always count on the fact that our parents would always think we were up to no good.

But you know…looking back on my high school career, I’m finding it hard to just pick one strong and solid memory with friends.  Dances, friends hurting themselves in hilarious ways, strange lunchroom talk, Ninja, road trips, day-long practices, games after school, playing ‘The Game’…the memories come flooding back.  It doesn’t matter how many times we say we’re ready to leave or we’re ready to graduate because we’ll always have those memories, and every time we look back, we’ll see all the people who affected our lives.  Our friends.  Our family.  Our teachers.  Even that random underclassman you pushed in E-Hall.  We’ll always have them.

            And we’re never going to give these memories up or let our friends down.  It might seem like we’re running away to college to desert them, but we know we’d never make our friends cry when we say goodbye, because it’d be a lie if we said we wanted to hurt them.  Besides, this is a day of happiness.  We may be going our separate ways, but the memories will always keep our friends close to our hearts.  Oh, and Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and texting.  Can’t forget all of those.

In fact, I think we can all say with confidence that the memories we’ve made and people we’ve met will never leave us, for better or for worse.  From the first time we stepped foot in Lake Central to the time we drove down to West Lafayette just to buy some Nintendo Wii’s, those memories will continue to grow in our minds.  Whether they’re good or bad, they’re here to stay, and I think the only thing we can do is look back on them and laugh, not because they were embarrassing and we like to mock our friends for it, but because of the fun we had.

And now, as I said before, we’re moving on in our lives.  It’s hard to say where we might go, like University of Minnesota, or who we’ll meet, like at University of Minnesota, or all the amazing memories we’ll share with those people, like at University of Minnesota.  But no matter where we go, we’ll always have someone there to share the memories  It won’t matter that time has made some memories a little hazy, because we’ll hold those memories closest to us.  In five years, we’ll look back fondly on these memories, possibly over a Frappacinno because Starbucks will soon rule the world, and all those hazy memories will become clear as day.

            So in conclusion, I guess I really don’t have anything truly specific that I want to leave on everyone’s mind today.  Now, I know what you might be thinking after I said that. “Wait, he didn’t have a point to his speech?  Well then why am I sitting here staring at his lovely face?”  I did, and still do, have a point, and I appreciate your compliments.  But I really don’t have any specific message or theme that I want everyone to think about.  What I really wanted to do was just take a couple of minutes and help everyone remember what we all went through in our lives, and maybe bring back something you forgot.

People say life goes by too quickly, and by the time we realize that, it’s already too late.  Well, I’ve always disagreed with that belief.  I’ve always thought life goes by far too slowly.  Why?  No, it’s not because of the past fifteen or so years of school…though that has helped a lot.  Recently, I’ve been looking over my life and talking to friends.  I was surprised at how much I’ve forgotten.  Memories dating way back to kindergarten…preschool…even earlier.  It wasn’t long before I realized life hasn’t gone by too quickly.  We’re all just too worried about what there is and what there will be that we never really think about what there was.  We never really stop and just…remember.

I once thought up a phrase that went, ‘We only look back because we didn’t know what was there.’  We all remember our fondest memories, but it isn’t until examine them that we actually realize what we had.  It’s those memories that bring everything back to us.  They’re what connect the past, present, and future to make giant picture of our lives.  They’re what we’ll hold closest to us.  But most importantly, they’re what we’ll never forget.

No one remembers everything that happened in life, ever.  But we can hold on to what we do remember.  So after this ceremony, before the summer-long party starts, go home and look through all those old pictures you have.  You might just find something you forgot was there.