My high school graduation was tonight - lots of memories

[dubeskin]

I think the song Graduation by Vitamin C, although quite overplayed around this time of the year, really sums it up. I wasn't participating - instead as a Junior I was filming it for Broadcasting. But nonetheless, the speeches and occasion really got me thinking back to all the times I've had with friends and family in my childhood. Because ultimately, this is the end of the road, and after graduation, you're an adult. And I started to cry - yes, a 17 year old teenage boy, crying as he's driving home. Laugh. But it was just a touching moment. Because one of the speeches brought something up. Senior year is the last time that you do a lot of things. Your last Homecoming. Your last high school football game. Your last Prom. Your last rally. Your late high school date. Your last lunchtime activity. Just to name a few, it really got me thinking how it just seems that everyday, we've forgotten to really live. We go about our every day as normal, not considering the consequences of our every action and not realizing that the next day might be our last. I have not lived these past three years in high school. I was that weird kid - you know, the kind who would much rather sit inside and talk politics with random people across the internet rather than go to a nighttime rally. But that's all changing next year. I'm going to actually do something. Because although Senior year will include a lot of "last"s, in no way will it inhibit the great memories that come out of it. As the final stretch in childhood, Senior year will be the final summation of all I've done over the past 17 and 18 years.

And so now I'm sitting here, starting to tear up again because I just am thinking how it's all going to be over soon. I don't even have a clue what I want to do, where I want to go to college. I just want to sit back, relax, and enjoy life - something that I think a lot of people have forgotten how to do. If you're still reading this, tomorrow, just take 5 minutes, sit back, close your eyes, and appreciate your lives, and how well you have it compared to a lot of people out there. Think back to your childhood, from when your mother rocked you in her arms, to when you graduated high school, then college. Good times. Just do that, and remember that you have to live for every day and every moment.

Thanks for reading this.