Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Graduation Today

Today I will be attending the "ten thousandth" graduation of my life, at least! And I won't be liking it much.  Graduations have come to mean a kind of "pro forma" passage to a new life --- but it ain't necessarily so.

Lives don't change; jobs don't come flocking to one's email box; life doesn't pin a rose on your forehead. Everything stays the same; and everything also changes. At the point of graduation one has to "get back in the game," move on, get motivated, find the new way, change/change/change ---- now!

Most younger students don't get that. For them the achievement is enough -- it's like running a four-minute mile, or making love without any birth control, or having a really, really fine meal.  It is a moment in time to be enjoyed -- and as end -- rather than as a beginning of a long new process.  And so it goes.  

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