Graduation Party Season

Today’s the big hoop-lah for my brother! Graduation party at my house – and actually, it’s a joint graduation party because my cousin and my brother are in the same class. So before guests start arriving, I have a little bit of time to relax.

My gradaution party was this same day and time 5 years ago – strange to think about it. I remember thinking, ‘huh, so I’m done with school…weird’…. and then greeting lots of people I didn’t really know but who must have been friends or family of my parents. It was sorta surreal I guess – like it takes soooo long to finally get to graduation, and then when you get there it seemed almost anticlimactic. I didn’t feel any different. I was the same person I was four days ago when I was in school. Except now, people were congratulating me and telling me things like ‘it’s your time to shine’ and I get to ‘go out and find my way’ or all that stuff. Sure, I thought…thanks for coming, really, but I’m hungry and I haven’t gotten to eat at my own party! And I actually never did get a bite to eat at my party.

After that, I had the summer to think about what it meant that I was actually moving out and going to college. Looking back, it meant way more than what I could ever write down. For one thing, I went on my first flight, left the country for the first time, and as the first person in my family…graduated from college as the first person in my family…And it was pretty cool.

And now it’s my little brother’s turn! Our paths will be different, but he’ll learn just as much as I did, if not more, I’m absolutely positive of it!

My other brother has come home from the Air Force, so it’s a family affair – congratulating the middle brother graduating one phase and getting ready to jump into another phase of his life.

Can you see that day for you? Crossing the stage on graduation day? Listening to all the graduation cliches, and then waking up the next day knowing something about the rest of your life could be a little different? What do you think? How do you want that next stage to look?

Well, as for me, the next phase of my life right now consists of greeting a lot of people I still don’t really know, and some I do…and most importantly: snagging some food!

Congrats to all those graduating this season!!!!!

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