So a couple of weeks ago, me and my friends finally graduated from college. We’ve done it precisely on four years’ length.
So, on one fine afternoon, we all gathered together in a large hall with numbered seats, sitting down in large groups like history class; only way more boring.
Then, just then, I look around and realized something from the look on their faces; and I bet my ugly toe on this: Nobody actually liked graduation. They surely were looking forward to graduating, but not the graduation. I don’t think sitting on your flat-ass with a funny-looking robe for six hours straight is -at the very least- can be considered as ‘ceremonial’. Graduation is pretty much like a very good bathroom concert; Only weirdos are there to enjoy it.
As for myself, put the dullness aside, I was grateful that I finally made it to the finish line. I wanted to celebrate that moment by congratulating everyone in that room whom I can bump to. Tons of “Congratulations, we did it!” were thrown along with high-fives and hugs and fist-bumps. As I cherished our friendship and struggle that has been there for the past four years, most of them managed to touch the deepest ‘what!?’ part of my soul by saying,
“Yeah! Now it’s time to face reality!”
…..what?
What reality are you talking about? Job-seeking, getting involved in the industry, or worse, being unemployed kind of reality? Heck, school has been a reality for as long as I can remember. I shit my pants on my second week being a kindergarten freshman. I surely hoped that was just an imagination, but it wasn’t. Shit was very real. - pun intended.
But oh well, I’m glad they made such remark in hope to gear themselves for the future.
It’s just amusing to know that it took them a lot of course-credits and four years of study plan to figure out that college years were just a dream.
So, on one fine afternoon, we all gathered together in a large hall with numbered seats, sitting down in large groups like history class; only way more boring.
Then, just then, I look around and realized something from the look on their faces; and I bet my ugly toe on this: Nobody actually liked graduation. They surely were looking forward to graduating, but not the graduation. I don’t think sitting on your flat-ass with a funny-looking robe for six hours straight is -at the very least- can be considered as ‘ceremonial’. Graduation is pretty much like a very good bathroom concert; Only weirdos are there to enjoy it.
As for myself, put the dullness aside, I was grateful that I finally made it to the finish line. I wanted to celebrate that moment by congratulating everyone in that room whom I can bump to. Tons of “Congratulations, we did it!” were thrown along with high-fives and hugs and fist-bumps. As I cherished our friendship and struggle that has been there for the past four years, most of them managed to touch the deepest ‘what!?’ part of my soul by saying,
“Yeah! Now it’s time to face reality!”
…..what?
What reality are you talking about? Job-seeking, getting involved in the industry, or worse, being unemployed kind of reality? Heck, school has been a reality for as long as I can remember. I shit my pants on my second week being a kindergarten freshman. I surely hoped that was just an imagination, but it wasn’t. Shit was very real. - pun intended.
But oh well, I’m glad they made such remark in hope to gear themselves for the future.
It’s just amusing to know that it took them a lot of course-credits and four years of study plan to figure out that college years were just a dream.