Since I began high school, graduation has been something I’ve been eagerly anticipating. At times, I’ve even considered graduating early. High school graduation is no doubt a momentous event in our lives, and an event I generally see as exciting, but one I’m very anxious about as well.
The graduation itself and receiving your diploma are both very important because it is recognition of your ability to have been successful throughout your high school years and seen it through to the end. But in my mind, it is what comes after graduation that is truly impactful and important. For me and millions of others, high school graduation is seen as the end of your adolescence and your introduction to “real world”, the world of being an adult. Because of this, I look towards my upcoming graduation with a slight sense of worry. Around the time of graduation, we need to seriously think and consider what we want to do with our lives afterwards. I know many of my peers already have an idea of what they want to do after high school and what they want to do for work later in life, but I still remain unsure.
As I get closer and closer to my graduation next year, I remain both slightly optimistic and worried about what will come afterwards. I’m excited to enter a new chapter of my life and be a legal adult, but at the same time I feel a lot of pressure to decide what I want to do with my life when I’m still unsure.
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Graduation is a huge even that sets us up for the rest of our lives and it is crazy how close it is for us. I really liked how the mentioned the amount of pressure there is immediately after we close a long chapter of our lives. I love your perspective and remember that everything will fall into place!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your thought about after high school graduation we will all be entering a new chapter of our lives. We will be all alone in this scary world without our parents assistance and figuring out what we'll be doing for the rest of our lives. I'm anxious and excited for graduation but I'm also not looking forward to leaving a school that has been my home for four years.
ReplyDeleteI too have similar feelings about graduation. While I am excited to leave and start the next chapter of my life at the same time I will miss my teachers and friends. our post did a good job at addressing the topic of graduation and the feelings regrading it
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