Cultural Week, week of examinations, graduation ceremony (and pictures), graduation party (and wow even more pictures), the end of the year, summer intensive course for the tests of our lives… there are constantly too many things for the students to do at school. Well, at least for those who are at the “3rd and final” grade… who are ready to finally step outside high-school and live our own lives, as we have so long desired.
Yeah, that’s right. The end has come and what now is left is no more than a mere formality. We all smile, take pictures, pretend to laugh (while we would rather cry), and do all that very same repetitive stuff every student does when they graduate. Among this uncertainty, there is at least one thing we can ascertain: we will surely miss this.
Denial is the most predictable of all human responses, but rest assured, there is no problem whatsoever in coming to terms with the fact that we only live once. Each and every moment of ours is unique, however stupid it might seem or have been. High-school was a challenge indeed and one I am very proud of accomplishing. But we should bear in mind that what made our time was not the school, nor its faculty. It was us, the students, the people we have met, those whom we have come to consider friends.
Those we have been with are the ones who really shape us and make us presentable to the world pass the school’s hedge. And specially from now on, those are the ones we should remember. Those are the ones who deserve a picture in our graduation albums. As I have adequately put, time is short and always against us. But, wait… time is still not up… It is true there is only a little bit left, but it can prove extremely worth it.
