For most parents, graduation is one of their most cherished dreams. For students, it can mean a lot.
Indeed, most Filipino parents think that education is the supreme gift and legacy that they can give to their children. Others also think that their greatest task as parents is accomplished when they see their children march onstage with their diploma. Medals and achievements are icings on a cake for as long as graduation has come, it is already victory. Victory because graduation is an end to the sweat and blood of paying tuition fee and giving daily allowance for fare and food, and the even heavier load of giving extra amount for various projects throughout the many years of their children’s stay in school.
However, graduating students usually do not think of graduation as victory alone. There are much mixed feelings and thoughts----happy, triumphant, sentimental, anxious, or even scared. Of course, everybody dreams of finishing a degree or course of education has been tried and tested as a passport to a secured life. It takes will power for a non-graduate before he becomes successful in life, but a graduate often has more opportunities to be successful. That’s why graduating students will truly be happy, knowing that both their parents’ sacrifice and their diligence are now about to end. Triumphant, especially to honor graduates, because finally, they are now equipped to start a brand new, independent life of working for their own necessities and wants. On the other hand, these graduating students also feel sentimental of leaving their childlike ways behind-------with all the colors of youth, together with their friends and Saturday hangouts. But most of all, graduating students oftentimes feel anxious or worse, scared because of the future that awaits them very, very soon. Graduating in college is a total goodbye to youthfulness and an invitation to adulthood and responsibilities. “Will I be able to find a good job right away?” “Will my salary be enough to help my family and feed myself as well?” “Will I have time with my friends or to relax?”
RESPONSIBILITIES. . . if a person hates that word, graduating in college will be an agonizing moment for him, because afterwards, the whole world will be in front of him, and he will be faced with a lot of tasks to build his life. Everything is going to depend on himself now. But if a person is a true-blooded adventurer, he will face these responsibilities as challenges with his positive mental attitude.
William Ernest Henley once wrote on his poem Invictus, “ I am the master of my soul, I am captain of my ship.” “Invictus equals Unconquerable. Graduation will be a pathway for you to prove that even a number of stages of life are going to be opened, you will be unconquerable to face all the tides and storms of change.
Graduates, are you unconquerable enough to be the master of your soul and to be the captain of your ship? Whatever happens, don’t forget the wind that sails you through it all, and that’s no other than God. Bon voyage! .
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