The Final Speech
A week ago Thursday I concluded my tenure as the head coach and cheerleading coordinator for my high school. Coming face to face with the ending of something you love and have nurtured for ten years tends to cause a myriad of emotions: sadness, ecstasy, bittersweetness, terror. But what I never expected was a feeling of complete calming peace. I was surprised and shocked at this revelation because to be quite honest I wasn't sure how I would take my retirement. I have put my heart and soul into that program and it has been my world for the past ten years, even though it hasn't always been easy. At our end of season banquet, I gave my final speech with advice and life lessons that I have learned...lessons that I wanted to share in an ever changing society that demands our seclusion from people in an attempt to cage us in social media...and yes I see the irony. There is so much that I wanted to say to those girls, and so much that I still wish to say,...