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I can relate
Somehow, my own graduation day was similar. I've never had any goals in life, and to me it was just a day, a day to see friends, to get a diploma, to have a few words spoken about me as a short characterisation, and to part ways, knowing full well that I, unable to make lasting connections with practically all of them, am not going to be a part of their lives anymore.
Yet, it was also different. I never hated my high school. Even now, sometimes I remember my former classmates and their parts in my life. I can still look at the building that predated electricity, and remember fondly the days that passed there, and the people who have never put me down in any way. It is a sense of light nostalgia, that I enjoy from time to time.
Never the one to be in the midst among. Never the one to be away alone. I will remember.
Faraway
Faraway
Big Closet Top Shelf
Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
I was surprised when I wrote
I was surprised when I wrote this that many of the people in the class could relate, too. Being the one that was almost always 'away alone', I assumed it would be totally different for everyone else. Actually, that's not quite true. I didn't manage much alone time in high school, because the jerks seemed to be drawn to me like magnets. I did have a few friends, but not close ones and they always moved away within a year of meeting me. They all seemed to go to Oregon or Idaho for some reason...
Thanks Faraway!
Saless
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America
I know
that I felt much the same. The difference was I graduated right in the middle. Not at the bottom nor at the top, but without really trying very hard. Lowest common denominator where I went to school was pretty darn low. Must not hurt anyone's self esteem by making it too hard. On the other hand I knew I was not ready to be thrown out into the world. All of my energies were taken up by surviving from day to day. You really captured some of that feeling with your story. I'm out of high school, now what?
hugs!
grover
Exactly
Ironically, what I did after I graduated was write. I wrote a whole novel. Then I read over it and thought it was juvenile and pathetic and gave up. I might even still have a copy lying around somewhere...
Thanks grover!
Saless
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America
Not something I can relate to
I never graduated high school, I dropped out when I was fifteen(second pass on my sophomore year).
Wound up taking my GED at 17 and enrolling in college. I was lucky, I'd already found love, so that wasn't an issue.
I guess that makes us even
as I've never come even remotely close to finding love. Wait, that doesn't sound very even to me... ;)
Saless
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America
We are as many people have said
Two countries bound together by a common language but in so many other ways we are so different. One of which is the school system, In my comprehensive school (high school was for the more intelligent pupils!)there was sad to say no such thing as a graduation day, when you finished your final examination's you then had a wait of some two months before you returned to the school office to find out your results..... And that it was it no big big fanfare... Just a sheet of paper with your results written on it!!!
Mind you with my results that was no bad thing, At least the whole school was kept in the dark as to how badly i'd done... Some things are best kept secret!!!
Kirri
From my perspective, you
From my perspective, you didn't miss anything! I guess that's kind of obvious, though. ;) My grades were also not known by everyone, which was similarly fortunate for me! I wouldn't have graduated when I did if my sister hadn't talked one of my teachers into giving me a D instead of an F. School work wasn't difficult for me, it was just boring. Between that and my lack of enthusiasm for life in general, I tended not to do my homework, so it's no surprise I got poor grades.
Saless
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America