Graduation.Gottalovethis.Gottawriteaboutthis.
Lets quote:
“I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying to participate. So, if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped me. Even if you didn’t know what I was talking about, or know someone who’s gone through it, you made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don’t happen. And there are people who forget what it’s like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen. I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite."
GRADUATION. 3+10+2+3 YEARS.
Yes, It was a big day. It was big not because of the beautiful black robes and hats.
It wasn't big because of the certificate or the trophies.
It wasn't big because we were done with college.
It was big because it was a day that connected the history and the future.
The past and the coming is what made it so worthwhile.
It was the people we met, the lessons we learnt.
It was more about the exams we failed than the exams we excelled.
It was more about the Projects we did that make us proud of ourselves.
It is about looking through pictures and memories and seeing how we've grown up.
We see a change today. Something that brightened the sparkle in our eyes.
It was the entire process. It was about scraped knees, falling off the bicycles and crying in school because we missed our mothers. It was about the Alphabet which changed into words and then into sentences. About sentences that taught us how to be meaningful. About syllables and words and speech and conversations and about art science geography and history.
Its about the people who loved us. Its about people who hated us too.
Its about best-friends made and lost and friends here and forgotten.
These years taught us about people and subjects and love and life. Its from zero to fifty.
About petty crushes and Boyfriends that probably made us realize that Love is anything but mediocre.
About respect and inspiration.
It was about Projects. The ones we did heartlessly and the ones that actually made a change.
Its not just an academic degree.
It feels like a degree of change. To tell us that we've gotten somewhere and maybe we don't know where we're going, but we're on the way.
Yes, This day is the Goddamn TIME CAPSULE. Its here, its beckoning, its moving swiftly past the seconds. Its taking us through the memories into the future. It is nauseating yet so pleasurable.
And then there is the future that it connects us to.
The future is what brings fear. Uncertainty is so exciting.
Uncertainty is what teaches me faith. The faith that its all going to be fine.
There shall be days that will be hard but they will pass.
There will be days that will be extraordinarily brilliant but those will pass too.
Faith is but a beautiful thing!
One moment you're at a peak of a mountain and you decide to take a plunge because you know that the parachute will open once the free fall is over and it will take you too the plains, the sea or wherever you want to be.
This day needs us to have faith in our future in our tomorrow.
This moment is big because of its transition. Because its that moment where things will change and Change is beautiful!
Graduation - Batch of 2013
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