I remember the moments before my graduation vividly; the excitement that
welled from my being left me with a gushing stream of hope. I was
hopeful about my future and deep-within, I had that fiery ambition to
take on my world.
Then we walked into the great hall; clad in our
gowns, prepared to sing the Gaudeamus. I suspected that the feeling
could be mutual. After seeing the looks on everybody else’s faces, I
knew I was damn right about the way I felt.
Truth is we all remember
the feeling on graduation day, don’t we? We are oftentimes struck by
the memories of our academic nightmares and the tough commitments we had
made to ensure that we gotten to the places where our fathers sighed.
Emotional as it may seem, we see the moments stare at us right in the
faces. We think about how stony the roads have become and the bitter
chastening rod that we have endured in the course of our studies.
In
the end; we are yet thankful. We are gratified by our own efforts when
we finally walk onto that stage to shake hands with the dean. Graduates!
That’s what’s spelt on our faces and everybody congratulates our
efforts.
Perhaps that’s how life is organized. We go to bed every
night hoping to overcome the dark. We lend our souls to the forces of
the dark and our breaths; God knows who monitors them.
We turn, we snore, we drool, and we sweat. We dream, we die, we fight and we let ourselves go.
Here’s what I think; four years of schooling can be like our nights of sleep.
And when all the heat is gone; we wake up to our morning and like graduation day; not everybody makes the mark.
Some die in their sleep; some wake up sick for whatever reasons.
The best we can do is to be thankful.
My point is this; every morning we graduate from our sleep of the night and the truth is: it’s not our making.
So when you do like you have this morning, treat yourself like the
fresh graduate you are. Treat everybody’s morning like it’s their
graduation day too and thank God for graduating you.
I’m thankful to God for graduating me this morning and if you are reading this; it means you are up too!
Congratulations on your graduation!!! Go ahead; let the rest of your day shine.
