(This is initially a speech delivered for the Competent
Communicator Manual of Toastmaster International. My Basic Speech 8)
Main objective of Speech 8 is to Get Comfortable With Visual
Aids — It examines the use of slides, transparencies, flip charts, whiteboards,
or props.
For this project I use my drawings as my visual aids.
When I Was A Kid
Self-knowledge is represented in the individual’s memory,
meaning – if you want to know yourself then think about what you remember from
your past. It was John Locke who suggested that a person’s identity extends to
whatever of his / her past that ONLY he / she can remember.
Locke’s memory theory of personal identity conclude that
memory is both a necessary and sufficient condition of self, and, therein,
personal identity. Of course, the theory has been through a number of scrutiny,
debate and rejection. Nevertheless, supposing that it is true I materialized my
childhood memories through drawings, hoping that in the process I might
discover myself.
Seventeen years ago, when I was five years old, I remember
looking out from a window. From that window, I could see my friends
playing.
There was this yearning to play with them but I
cannot because I was inside my room behind a desk with my tutor seating beside
me. My tutor was a young lady, quite beautiful but beneath that sweet demeanor
was a strict teacher.
“Finish your letters first,” my tutor said as I practice my
scriptwriting.
“Once you are done, then you can go out and play,” she said.
