Tomorrow is LHS graduation and, while I am very excited to work at it and to see all the graduates matriculate out into the next step of their lives, it will be bittersweet.
While endings are a cycle of life we all must learn to accept, it can be difficult when the action we have to take is painful, and not necessarily something we want to do so much as know we need to do.
When kids graduate, for many of them the posturing about being out of school masks a deeper fear of what comes next. The loudest celebrants are often the most insecure, singing the praises of the end of this chapter all while quaking at the prospects of what comes next.
As someone who went through a pretty serious ending herself this year, I have this advice: let yourself be afraid. Let yourself feel whatever it is you are feeling because burying it only makes it worse. And, embrace the changes that are coming. They are frightening, terrifying in fact, but they also mean something new and beautiful is on the way.
It's only when we have the courage to leave on situation--for whatever reason--that we learn what we are capable of in the next one. I believe in the power of change, of transformation, of the joy that can be borne from intense sorrow. I believe in it because it happened to me.
So, graduates, fellow travelers on the journey of life, here's to starting over, one step at a time.
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