FAREWELL SPEECH

Good morning respected Chairman Sir, Director Ma’am, Principal Ma’am,

our Chief Guest and all our dear parents.

Today I am a little surprised at how a person like me, a person who

has loved each and every inch of this stage, be so hesitant to come up here

and speak. What I am about to do is absolutely final. I am here to deliver my

farewell speech. It has taken a little time for this fact to dawn on me. The

fact that this speech has to sum up just one thought: SNEH, I'm going to

miss you. It has left my heart wrenched. No matter what I say in the next

few minutes, nothing will sum up even a fraction of how much I owe this

institution.

I witnessed here what were possibly the darkest days of my life. I

couldn't speak a single sentence in English without fumbling. I knew I had

the ability to do a lot of other things but somehow I was being rejected

because of my speech impediment. It was a dark cloud that refused to budge.

No matter what I did, how much I tried, the more I tried to prove myself, the

more I fumbled. I blamed everybody around me for it. I fooled myself, lied

myself. People laughed at me and they poked fun at me.

Then one day I realized that if I don't speak unless necessary, I won't be a

considered a joke. So I started keeping quiet. I started observing. Observing,

everything around me. It was this very opportunity that Sneh gave me, no

other institution would have. I realized that one's problems are as big as one

perceives them to be. Sneh taught me to see my faults; it gave me

opportunities to mend them. It taught me to think, to dream, and to pursue

my dreams. It has taught me to trust myself, pick myself up whenever I went

wrong. This institution has taught me to succeed. When I say 'this

institution', I mean PRINCIPAL Ma’am, the teachers, the staff… the

building where I found a new me every day… my classmates who have been

there throughout…. my immediate juniors who have been a constant source

of support. All of them, believe me, each of them has been so special that the

essence of SNEH stands incomplete even if one were to be taken away. It

has taken me FIVE long years to experience what I've summed up in these

few lines in an attempt to capture what I feel today. And yet I feel instead I

could have just walked away without saying anything as insignificant as my

speech just by chanting the seven golden words. The seven words that shall

remain unparalleled for the rest of my life I am proud to be a SNEHITE.

Thank you.