Class of 2006!
OH MAN
I'VE JUST GRADUATED
I'M A 2006 GRADUATE
OHHH MAAAAN
Well, this is weird. The four years of secondary education is complete. We got our diplomas and shit like that. I gots me a Certificats de français intensif, too. Yooo. This is total weirdness.
You know, it was kinda weird today... I was all, "I'm not ready for this... don't tell me it's over... I'm not ready for this...", but you know what? I'm really quite happy. I'm very, very happy due to tonight. I don't know what I wasn't prepared for... like, what the hell was I freaking out about? Well, I wasn't really freaking out, but there was something in me that was just pulling back. Seriously. I don't think I've actually figured out what that was, though. In any case, I knew it had to do something about school, friends, family, life in general, I guess. We've been supporting each for the past four years, and we're taking the next step in life. We're taking different paths, and meeting new people, and that's kinda scary. It's such a new outlook on life; it's such a new world in general, and it's really, really scary, because you really don't know what you're getting yourself into. You no longer have that backbone of support to run to now... you have to build it all over again. It's taken me four years to get this diploma, to get to know the people I now call friends... and in two months, it's all going to change. These things are going to be taken away from me; I'll have to rebuild everything once again, and well, it scares me... a lot.
This past year has had so many ups and downs, academically and socially. It's been so topsy turvy. My grades... they fell ALL the way down, never seeming to come up again. My friends? I've lost some, I've made new ones. That's life, I guess, but I wish I hadn't lost any in this whole process. But you know what? After tonight... I'm happy to say that I should seriously kick myself for doubting my friendships. I'll admit that through the duration of this year... academics had no effect on my life - it was all socialization: friends, parties, whatever. I've come to the conclusion that I'm a very self-concious, extroverted, and vain freak of nature. That's just who I am. There have been many times that I've looked at myself and tried to rearrange who I am, but it's never worked. It always goes back to the scevfon. My life has seriously been based on the people I hung around with this past year, and well, that's where all the topsy turvyness has come in. By the time we finished those IB exams, all I could think was, "wow, I've lost so many friendships and communication with people... even those that I'd been stuck with for the past two years". Even for prom, I thought to myself, "should I even go to that afterparty? I'll be wasting $75 on people I don't even talk to anymore", but I still went; I took the chance. Tonight? All I wanted to do was take pictures of the people with whom I'd spent these past four years. Any conflicts, arguments, whatever... it all disappeared. My conclusion to this was that... these were people that affected my life some way somehow, and the result of that is... they've done something to me, they've done something to my life; they mean something to me. I couldn't have gotten to where I am now without them, and I'm happy to say that these people were a part of my life at one point. I can keep grudges with people, but what's the point? We're in the moment, so why not live it? My voice hurts right now, would you like to know why? Probably not, but the fact is, every time I knew someone walking on that stage, I clapped. Every time someone who affected my life in any which way walked on that stage, I cheered. And you know what? It was countless... and that's why my voice hurts so much. What strikes me even more is that when I went up on stage... even after all the things, good and bad, that had happened with the people I thought I hardly knew... I received some cheers and clapping as well. And I was very, very happy.
I love these people, I really do. I love my friends, I really do. Four years have come and gone, and this is what we celebrated tonight. I don't care about my diploma (it doesn't even look like a high school diploma, wtf? My French certificate looks more like a diploma... seriously, am I missing something here. Please tell me that we didn't get anything extra, other than the photo of all of us!)... I can say that I'm quite surprised that I'd actually gotten this diploma. Well, okay, no not really. I always knew I'd get it. It was a given that I'd get this diploma. But the fact that it feels like I didn't do anything at all to get this diploma... well, that's questionable. But who cares? My memories of Michael Power St. Joseph won't be about math class or art class or the masses we skipped and the extra curricular activities I spent all my time on; my memories will about the people I shared this time with, the friends who amused and entertained me at this high school, the ones who helped me and got me through these four rampant years...
...And with that, I'd like to say, "thank you". Thank you for always having my back, thank you for always being there for me, and I hope I was there for you, too. Please, keep in touch - there's so many more memories waiting to be created. No matter what happens down the road, I'm happy to know that there was at least one time in my life when we had each other to lean on.
Graduates of 2006, Congratulations.
WE DID IT!
I'VE JUST GRADUATED
I'M A 2006 GRADUATE
OHHH MAAAAN
Well, this is weird. The four years of secondary education is complete. We got our diplomas and shit like that. I gots me a Certificats de français intensif, too. Yooo. This is total weirdness.
You know, it was kinda weird today... I was all, "I'm not ready for this... don't tell me it's over... I'm not ready for this...", but you know what? I'm really quite happy. I'm very, very happy due to tonight. I don't know what I wasn't prepared for... like, what the hell was I freaking out about? Well, I wasn't really freaking out, but there was something in me that was just pulling back. Seriously. I don't think I've actually figured out what that was, though. In any case, I knew it had to do something about school, friends, family, life in general, I guess. We've been supporting each for the past four years, and we're taking the next step in life. We're taking different paths, and meeting new people, and that's kinda scary. It's such a new outlook on life; it's such a new world in general, and it's really, really scary, because you really don't know what you're getting yourself into. You no longer have that backbone of support to run to now... you have to build it all over again. It's taken me four years to get this diploma, to get to know the people I now call friends... and in two months, it's all going to change. These things are going to be taken away from me; I'll have to rebuild everything once again, and well, it scares me... a lot.
This past year has had so many ups and downs, academically and socially. It's been so topsy turvy. My grades... they fell ALL the way down, never seeming to come up again. My friends? I've lost some, I've made new ones. That's life, I guess, but I wish I hadn't lost any in this whole process. But you know what? After tonight... I'm happy to say that I should seriously kick myself for doubting my friendships. I'll admit that through the duration of this year... academics had no effect on my life - it was all socialization: friends, parties, whatever. I've come to the conclusion that I'm a very self-concious, extroverted, and vain freak of nature. That's just who I am. There have been many times that I've looked at myself and tried to rearrange who I am, but it's never worked. It always goes back to the scevfon. My life has seriously been based on the people I hung around with this past year, and well, that's where all the topsy turvyness has come in. By the time we finished those IB exams, all I could think was, "wow, I've lost so many friendships and communication with people... even those that I'd been stuck with for the past two years". Even for prom, I thought to myself, "should I even go to that afterparty? I'll be wasting $75 on people I don't even talk to anymore", but I still went; I took the chance. Tonight? All I wanted to do was take pictures of the people with whom I'd spent these past four years. Any conflicts, arguments, whatever... it all disappeared. My conclusion to this was that... these were people that affected my life some way somehow, and the result of that is... they've done something to me, they've done something to my life; they mean something to me. I couldn't have gotten to where I am now without them, and I'm happy to say that these people were a part of my life at one point. I can keep grudges with people, but what's the point? We're in the moment, so why not live it? My voice hurts right now, would you like to know why? Probably not, but the fact is, every time I knew someone walking on that stage, I clapped. Every time someone who affected my life in any which way walked on that stage, I cheered. And you know what? It was countless... and that's why my voice hurts so much. What strikes me even more is that when I went up on stage... even after all the things, good and bad, that had happened with the people I thought I hardly knew... I received some cheers and clapping as well. And I was very, very happy.
I love these people, I really do. I love my friends, I really do. Four years have come and gone, and this is what we celebrated tonight. I don't care about my diploma (it doesn't even look like a high school diploma, wtf? My French certificate looks more like a diploma... seriously, am I missing something here. Please tell me that we didn't get anything extra, other than the photo of all of us!)... I can say that I'm quite surprised that I'd actually gotten this diploma. Well, okay, no not really. I always knew I'd get it. It was a given that I'd get this diploma. But the fact that it feels like I didn't do anything at all to get this diploma... well, that's questionable. But who cares? My memories of Michael Power St. Joseph won't be about math class or art class or the masses we skipped and the extra curricular activities I spent all my time on; my memories will about the people I shared this time with, the friends who amused and entertained me at this high school, the ones who helped me and got me through these four rampant years...
...And with that, I'd like to say, "thank you". Thank you for always having my back, thank you for always being there for me, and I hope I was there for you, too. Please, keep in touch - there's so many more memories waiting to be created. No matter what happens down the road, I'm happy to know that there was at least one time in my life when we had each other to lean on.
Graduates of 2006, Congratulations.
WE DID IT!