Kay's Korner
I have finally finished the last of my final exams and am done with all of the schoolwork required for my bachelor’s degree. Thank goodness.
There have been times when I felt the time was going by too slowly, but now that I’m at the end, it feels like it passed more quickly than it did when I pulled an all-nighter right before a big presentation. Those nights felt like they would never end.
But all things come to an end, as college and high school seniors nationwide are learning. I don’t think I felt the significance of that until I graduated high school myself and realized that there were people who had been fixtures in my life for years that I may never see again.
I did not mourn that. For the first time, I felt that I had control over who I spent my time with, so I looked forward to going to college and meeting people who shared my interests. Plus, I could still keep my close high school friends.
I have written before that there are a select few friends from high school that keep in touch — three of us, to be precise. Generally I do not keep up with other members of Harmony High School’s Class of 2016, not in any personal way at least. I know that many of my old classmates have gotten married and have kids, which is beyond my comprehension at this point.
I still think of these people the way I last saw them, but many are leading very different lives now. It’s crazy thinking that other people have had such an easy time finding that for themselves.
Life events like that make me realize how much time has passed, because while I may not think that I have changed very much, someone who hasn’t seen me in a while might think that I have. Four years have gone by in a blink, and I feel like I haven’t made much progress even though I know objectively that I have.
So here we all are, all of us unable to walk the stage or have a traditional graduation. I did not want to walk the stage at my graduation, so I don’t feel as if I’ve lost anything, but I know that there are many students out there who feel differently.
High schools and colleges all over the nation are planning creative ways to recognize their graduates.
It may not be what was expected, but under the circumstances, a graduation parade is as close as most schools will get to the real deal.
Whether we are able to walk across the stage or not, students in the Class of 2020 put in a lot of hard work and came a long way to be the people we are today.
When you get down to it, recognizing that is the most important part of graduation.
Congrats, Class of 2020.
Kaylee Rush is a staff writer for The Snyder News. Coments on this article can be made at lifesyles@thesnydernews.com