22 - Graduation

To move on, to accomplish something and leave it behind. Graduation has become far too synonymous with the end of School. The idea of graduation comes in many different forms. Graduation is leaving a job that you love for a job that will push you to become better. It is the leaving of something that you have outgrown, something that you have mastered. "Graduation" is a happy word, while "moving on"...not so much. The world should recognize and cheer on the day when we move from one phase of life to the next. Just like we once graduated from diapers, training wheels, or pool floaties, moving on is something that we should cherish. Graduation from the single life to being married, just like graduating from High School, should not happen until one is ready. Adding a child to that relationship in the same way is a wonderful transition...but should happen at the right time. The eventual graduation from this life should not mark the leaving, but the mastering. When I leave College, a Job, or this world, I want to graduate from it.