Oh The Places You Ll Go Analysis

Oh the places you’ll go:

“Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to great places! You're off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know ahead, and you are the one who’ll decide where to go. Oh, the places you’ll go.” (Seuss) For many of us this is not the first time we have heard these wise words from Dr. Seuss. Whether that be seated politely on the gymnasium floor next to other wobbly four-year olds, or packed together in an auditorium full of other giddy high-school seniors. At so many points of transition in my life I have found comfort in the journey of our nameless hero, trying so hard to figure out where they belong, and finally finding it. For many of us, Dr. Seuss’s’ story is simply that, a story. However if high …show more content…
Let’s think about this place we call Earth. How improbable for us humans to sprout life from a world that is nearly completely uninhabitable, of the mountains we have moved on broken backbones, of the rivers redirected by calloused hands, of the ingenuity that the people of this place, Earth, are capable of. How about this place we call, Falmouth High School? The first time sitting down in your classroom wondering if this is where you really belonged, the first day figuring out the location of all your classrooms, by wandering around the halls aimlessly. The first time you sung on stage in front of an audience. The first time you truly worried about the future. And here we are today, at this place we call our English classroom. Remembering it that it is not the floor underneath our feet that make this moment special. It is not the chairs we sit upon, it is not even the robes we will wear, the tassels that will hang for our caps, or even the diplomas we worked so hard to receive. Place matters, to put it simply because we

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