Graduated

I am officially a graduate and I graduated few months ago. The feeling of being graduated is often sold to us as a feeling that one experiences when they are on top of the world. I got to experience this feeling last month, the feeling of just  being out of college and onto real life. That feeling was awesome, 3 years of hard work but that feeling went away. Not in months, weeks, days but rather hours. The feeling of freshly graduating, went away. 

Don’t get me wrong I was so happy and proud of myself for achieving this but that feeling went away. The same feeling that my friends and I discussed, my teachers told me about, and that very same feeling that was sold to me on the first day of college. But that feeling stayed merely for hours. I was quite upset with myself because why couldn’t I celebrate this big moment in a more grandeur way. But that is when it hit me, this never was about the degree or the feeling of joy that I felt at the end of this course. Rather it was about the joy of being in the journey to get this degree. 

I never understood the quote “ It is about the journey and not destination.” Until I had this degree in my hand. My degree to the world may symbolize the knowledge I have, but to me it is not about just that. It is rather about the failures, successes, the friends, the enemies and most importantly the memories I made along the way. I am truly grateful that I got to experience this in the most beautiful way ever and I would not change a thing about it. 

I will carry every lesson, every whisper, every noise, every speech that I made, every responsibility that I held, every tear that I cried and every laughter that echoed in those classrooms, with pride. I am the person that I am because of the past 3 years and I know it is about going up from this point onward. If you are reading this blog till this point, it means you are one of the many that inspired and encouraged me to get better. I am truly grateful for you. 

Thank You. 

-MJM.