Bliss
The Big Day
My college graduation gave me an overwhelming experience. It was a big day for me. Realization of a lot of things occurred to me that day… It made me realize of the importance of education, sounds corny but true. It might be a very banal remark that I hear from my parents since the day they sent me to school but it’s worth it. Experiencing the bliss of the moment, wearing the perfect dress for the event with the UP sablay, being with the most important people in my life, hearing my name called, receiving the college medallion, singing the U.P. hymn and reciting the U.P. Alumni Oath gave me an unexplainable happiness and fear at the same time. Happiness because finally after all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the sacrificed meals, the school expenses and the lack of time for my family and my significant other I graduated on time and now ready to face the real world with its high-cost-of-living. Fear because of the huge responsibility that I am assumed to accept. Fear of finding the real importance of myself in my family, society and career that I chose to take. Fear of the struggles that I would definitely encounter in entering adulthood. Fear of not meeting the expectations of the people who believes in me. Fear of having and raising my own family in the future because of the high-cost-of-living. Basically fearing the future, where the transition between a student’s life and a career woman’s life would really be felt. The fact that I’m now on my own scares me a bit because it indicates that I can no longer depend on my mom rather I’m obliged to depend on myself and establish everything from what I have after college graduation. Hopefully the big day of my college graduation would lead me to a big happy contented life in the future. I might have a lot of fears but being trained in an educational institution like U.P., with all its academic standards and alluring temptations that every student should overcome, I think I could, I hope I could, face and overcome all my fears and live a successful career woman’s life.
05/02/05 4:54PM
My college graduation gave me an overwhelming experience. It was a big day for me. Realization of a lot of things occurred to me that day… It made me realize of the importance of education, sounds corny but true. It might be a very banal remark that I hear from my parents since the day they sent me to school but it’s worth it. Experiencing the bliss of the moment, wearing the perfect dress for the event with the UP sablay, being with the most important people in my life, hearing my name called, receiving the college medallion, singing the U.P. hymn and reciting the U.P. Alumni Oath gave me an unexplainable happiness and fear at the same time. Happiness because finally after all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the sacrificed meals, the school expenses and the lack of time for my family and my significant other I graduated on time and now ready to face the real world with its high-cost-of-living. Fear because of the huge responsibility that I am assumed to accept. Fear of finding the real importance of myself in my family, society and career that I chose to take. Fear of the struggles that I would definitely encounter in entering adulthood. Fear of not meeting the expectations of the people who believes in me. Fear of having and raising my own family in the future because of the high-cost-of-living. Basically fearing the future, where the transition between a student’s life and a career woman’s life would really be felt. The fact that I’m now on my own scares me a bit because it indicates that I can no longer depend on my mom rather I’m obliged to depend on myself and establish everything from what I have after college graduation. Hopefully the big day of my college graduation would lead me to a big happy contented life in the future. I might have a lot of fears but being trained in an educational institution like U.P., with all its academic standards and alluring temptations that every student should overcome, I think I could, I hope I could, face and overcome all my fears and live a successful career woman’s life.
05/02/05 4:54PM
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