Where is your emblazoned glory and heroic charge?

Why is your fist held high?

When you look at the past and at individuals in their time that lit up their world, they all had a fight.

They believed in something, someone challenged them, and they fought for their belief.

They fought for the weak, they fought for the unempowered, and they fought for those without.

Who is remembered?

Mother Theresa spent the entirety of her life aiding the weak, sick, and forgotten of India.
You know her name.

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. lived and died to see the social equality of his black brothers.

You know his name.

Those who died on Flight 93, on 9/11, gave their lives to protect those at the Capitol by bringing the plane down in Somerset.

You know their story.

They are remembered because they cared, loved, fought.

Do you care enough to defend the weak?

Do you care enough to empower the unempowered?

Do you care enough to give aid to those who go without?

Men who did nothing are remembered for nothing.

If you don’t care about anything, what then is your legacy?

Without getting too morbid, consider your own mortality.

If your life was to be lost today, what then would be your legacy?

What would you be remembered for?

Would you be mourned, rejoiced, and remembered?
 
Or would you be mourned, missed, and then forgotten?

If you don’t care about something, anything, what is your purpose?

Laziness and mediocrity are destroyers of potential and ability.

Fight them.

Almost 500 years ago Pico della Mirondella wrote his Oration on the Dignity of Man, where he first recognized the limitless potential of man and their very divine and powerful existence.

Do not dare dash your God-given talent and potential with intentional laziness or mediocrity.
We are man, and we have limitless potential.

This must not be lost, even at Franklin Regional High School.

Empower; do not belittle.

Create; do not just watch others create.

Glorify; do not depreciate.

Express love; do not spread hate.

Do not stand by and watch.

“Be all you can be” is not cliché or a wall filler in a teacher’s classroom bought at Holcomes.
It is a battle cry.

Do not fall into laziness or mediocrity; there are limitless opportunities, even in “the Bubble” of Murrysville.

Be convicted, stand up for something, stand up for someone, or just stand up.
Don’t be lost to time, don’t be forgotten.

What will be your fight?

Where will be your emblazoned glory and your heroic charge?

Why will your fist be held high?

What then, will be your fight?