Graduation... and Moving on

At least once a year, there are a lot of graduations. It's a time when a lot of people move on... from where they were to another school or another class... or out into the real world. "To graudate" means to take a step forward- to move onward and upward. I can remember my high school graduation, my graduation from university, and even my graduation from graduate school. Each of those graduations was nice. I took pictures. I got flowers. I hugged my parents. I had mixed emotions about moving on. I wanted to stay and have more fun, but I also wanted to move on.

When we hear the word "graduation," we naturally think of graduating from school. But I think it's possible to graduate from different places or stages in life. I worked in a company in New York for about 3 years. At one point, I felt that I could not learn anything else from the company or the people I was working with, that I had it's a ceiling. I felt that  it was time to move on. The way that I describe that "moving on" is ...a "graduation"

Somtimes we are thrown out into the world or to the next level, whether we are ready or not. Other times, we get to choose when we want to move on. I have experience both. I prefer the second one, where I have a choice. I like to choose "when" and "how." But we don't always get what we want. Since we can learn from every experience that we have, each experience can be a "stepping stone" for us to be better people. I know that I take lessons with me every time  I graduate... but sometimes I can be a slow learner! I wonder when my next graduationi is going to be...

Talk about it

1.How many times have you graduated?
2.How have you felt when you graduated?
3.Do you wish you could go back and change some things from school? If so, what?
4.Some people don't like to talk about the school they graduated from, why is that?
5.Have you ever chosen to "graduate" or move on from a company? Why?
6.Did you ever go to a class reunion? How was it... or why didn't you go?