Dear Clock,
I am a senior that is getting ready to leave Plymouth state, I am writing to express my feelings about this time of my life. I did not enjoy my graduation from High school and I wanted to tell how I feel about my second chance to enjoy the celebration of a turning point of my life.
When I was a getting ready for high school graduation, I was wondering what the purpose of such celebration was; after all we just finished high school. I was wondering why everyone was as happy as they were. In my mind I was thinking about the next step, having to leave my family to attend Plymouth state, and missing my sister’s prom that was coming up in the next year. It was not a special time for me, because I was leaving my comfort zone, I was entering a world were I was going to be told to stand and survive on my own. It was not until after gradation that I realized what this was all about. It was not about what we were leaving; it was about what we were gaining. This was not a time of sadness, but of joy. This is a time in your life that you have earned something, and you have taken the next step; in my case it was earning the right to attain higher education. The piece of paper that has our diploma is worth very little, but that the accomplishment that is met behind those words is priceless. I think now of my gradation not as an end of early life, but as a new beginning, as a man and as an educated individual. I look as this moment as a turning point in my life, because I am ready to leave Plymouth state. But unlike my first time going through a graduation, I am not going to be looking back at my past, but instead looking into the sun towards my future.
Jason Thomas Haigh
Class of 2006