新たな世界の入口に立ち (i'm standing at the entrance to a new world)
気づいたことは一人じゃないってこと。。。 (and it isn't just me who realizes this...)

-レミオロメン　- 3月9日

exhilaration, relief, joy.

just some of the many things that a lot of us feel after graduating. we’ve all faced the stress and the fatigue, the sleepless nights, the frustrating attempts at making headway through countless intimidating obstacles that loom over, daunting and imposing. every time it feels like there is some time to breathe a little, a new challenge comes our way, and we steel ourselves to face and overcome it.

the rewards at the end are worth the pain, and when we finally achieve them, it’s so much sweeter because we know we’ve given all we’ve got. the weight that has always hung heavily over us suddenly disappears, and it becomes so much easier to breathe. the world becomes brighter and the air sweeter. new and perhaps bigger crosses to bear definitely lie ahead in the winding, seemingly endless river that is life, but for a little while, at least, we probably deserve to be happy about the fact that we made it through one of the most important, defining periods in life.

looking back at the time spent, though, there were all kinds of good and bad experiences and perhaps some of the best memories we’d ever have. most of us would probably have things that we would have done differently had we been able to go back in time, but the author is pretty sure that we also possess some memories that we would not, by any means, have had any other way.

congratulations, people.