There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises."� Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.� ~Orrin Hatch
I'm using this quotation because one, I'll be graduating high school in less than three months, two because some believe that graduation is the end. Graduation is the end, the end to a chapter of one's life.
However, graduation is the beginning to a whole new chapter in one's life. For me, I'll be leaving most of my friends, some friends will be leaving me. That does not in any way mean that we won't stay in touch, or even hook up for get togethers. But it does mean that I won't have them in my life everyday.
All my friends have shaped who I am, and have challenged me to search within myself to find who I am.
Some say that you shouldn't have to find out who you are until later in life. I completely disagree with this, because I have become a better person, in my an other's opinion. I believe that we all should find out who we are, what we are made of early in life. So then we don't have to worry about it later on in life.
I'm not saying that we should find out who we are and that be it. No, I'm saying that we should look at each day as a way to learn who we are. Take everything that happens in each day and learn something from it.
This chapter in my life is ending, and I'm starting a new, scary, exciting, sad, happy chapter. I'm scared that I will lose touch will most of my friends, but then I'm reminded that the friends that are true will stay in touch, and will be there no matter what for me.
Throughout my high school career, I have had things happen, and not know why they were happening to me. That ever lasting quote "Why me?" I've learned that some things don't happen for a reason, except to teach us what we are made of. Some things don't have a specific reason, they just are. I do know that the things that I've been through have made me a better person because I've made them into positives. Even thoug at the time they were happening, I was really negative, but I always find a positive out of them.
Graduation is an ending, but when you come to the end, another door opens.
Parents especially who read this, need to remember that yes your children are growing up, but they will still be your little boy/girl. For my mother, she is a basket case whenever I talk about how I'm turning 18 in a couple of months, graduating in less than 3, and will be going to college in 6 months.
I'm sad that I won't be with my friends every day, because that's what school is for most, a connector "flight" to see our friends. True, school should be a place for education, and it is, but high school is a time to learn not only what teachers are suppose to teach us, but a time to learn from our friends, learn from ourselves.
To all my friends-- "As we go on, we remember, all the times we had together. And as our lives change come whatever, we will still be friends forever."
Remember, graduation is an ending, but more so a new, fresh beginning.
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