Graduation

Yesterday was my daughter’s graduation day.  It is one of those rare day’s in one’s life when there is a visible transition; an old fashioned rite of passage.  It was full of pomp and ceremony, gowns, hoods, mortarboards and caps, swords and maces.  Yesterday, the Chancellor said, marked the beginning of the rest of their lives rather than just the end of their time at university.

Most of the changes in our lives are more gradual… Tick..Tock..  Tick… Tock  Time passes and we don’t notice the subtle changes.  Day-by-day, we grow older, greyer, wiser.  I think it might all be a little easier if we had a few more ceremonies and certificates telling us that we now know something.  Mostly Life creeps up on us; one minute we are kids, the next we are parents (but still feel the same way!)

I tend to find that I don’t know what I know till I am  tested or asked a question, maybe it is the same for you.  I think there is a real value in these occasions and rites, but we shouldn’t forget all those little changes slowly add up and we aren’t the same person today that we were even a year ago.  Maybe we should pause occasionally, take stock and see who we are today?

“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.”  Sophocles

Tags: changes, graduation, rites of passage

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