"Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference."
~Arie Pencovici

A student's life reaches a stage of cessation when he or she attains graduation. It's the period of life when you go through a kaleidoscope of emotions. It could be of achievement, of jubilation, of fanfare. It could also be one of responsibility, of maturity, of focus. It's the time when you make substantial, life-changing decisions, the plans of which were laid some time back. You had charted out the course of your life, now the time has come to step out of the cocoon and take stock in a whole new way.

You may have been doing odd jobs here and there to support your education or to support a pocket that has no stitches on the down-side, but now you have to carve out a living for yourself. And that is a responsibility that comes attached to the diploma. Now what?

Graduation is when you thank yourself for having hung on to your books with dear life, through times when you thought you had had enough! Every student goes through a phase in his or her academic life when the "I-am-wasting-my-time" thought pops up in the mind, like forbidden temptation. If you can get over the hurdle where our first ancestors faltered, you do more help to yourself in a moment than you could have in a whole life of ridiculous ranting.

Graduation is a day when you feel like thanking and hugging the most droning of teachers. It's a day when you have a magnanimous heart and feel you can forgive the little wrongs your teachers have done unto you since childhood! It's a day when you can forgive all those injustices of the education system that made you a cog to keep the wheel moving. It's a day when you think you can stand up to all those college drop-outs and face their anti-college slogans with equal zeal. It's a day when you stand up to your mom, diploma in hand, to show her that she gave birth to a champion.

Graduation day is not your achievement alone. What about your friend who attended lectures and kept notes while you were busy pursuing what you thought were fruitful exploits? What about the nerd in the class whom you irritated to no end just to get some practical help? What about your part-time job employer whose kindness you took for granted and made the most of? Surely they deserve a big Thank You too.

Last but not the least, pat yourself on the back for coming to this milestone in life. Indulge your ego thinking of this achievement, but do not let it go to your head. A lot is there waiting to be explored and known. You have just made the beginning on a positive note; now the time is ripe to build up on that. You have to go far and justify to the world and more importantly to yourself, that this achievement is no flash in the pan.

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