Students leave behind words of wisdom

If you had only months to live and you wanted to leave an impact on the world, what would you want to say?

The teen leadership classes are replicating this idea. Each student wrote a three page essay on what wisdom they would like to instill upon the world as if they were dying. The classes were given five days to complete the assignment, some of the topics to get their papers started were friendships, parenting and dreams or aspirations.

“The easiest part about writing this was being able to open up and write things about myself that I wouldn’t normally do,” junior Tamra Henderson said.

The project was inspired by Randy Pausch’s story, the Last Lecture which discusses everything Pausch wanted his children to know after pancreatic cancer had taken his life. It included stories of his childhood, lessons he wants his children to learn and things he wants his children to know about him.

“The hard part about working on this essay was thinking of all the things I wanted to say and how I was going to say them,” Bethany Johnson said.

A power point needed to keep the audience interested and to help guide the audience throughout the lecture. The main idea of the lecture is to tell what legacy they would like to leave behind.

“The legacy I would like to leave behind would be that you can do anything you set your mind too, all it takes is faith,” junior Skylar Wilges said.