My Graduation day

Memories play an important role in our daily lives. As we grow older, the lessons we have learnt so far become our core values and events or time we spent with our family or friends become our memories. Every memory of ours has a lesson to share with all. Whether it was a fight with your  best friend or a school field trip or a movie you watched, if you reflect deeper into that event and try to think more about that memory, slowly you will be able to focus your mind on the lesson the memory has to present you with. Life is all about learning. Learning even from the most boring or tedious task can become our strongest lesson. For me, I have had many blissful memories that swirl in my brain till now and I would like to share with you the most recent and important one that i had incurred with: my primary six graduation.

I had my graduation on 15th November this year. It was one of the best moments i had with my class. Like any other event we had many performances, got our certificates, had a graduation party and many other things. However, the most emotional part of the graduation was a simple video prepared by the school just for us. To you it may just be a video but to all my fellow primary six graduates it was a long memory of all of us from primary one all the way to primary six. We saw ourselves participating in the different activities my school had prepared through these years and we saw our old friends who had transferred to other schools. We spotted our previous classmates playing with each other and we saw what other amazing things our school had to offer. After that sentimental video, almost every graduate cried sad tears as we bade farewell to our fellow friends. We hugged each other, wished them beat of luck, joked with them for what looked like the last time. But most importantly, we restored our friendships with our enemies and said sorry to them because we knew that it will hurt our hearts even more to leave our primary school with enemies still made. We took pictures with each other and thanked them for their friendships. It was with very heavy hearts that we said goodbye to our fellow friends because we knew that this was probably the last time we ever saw each other again. Many of us were reluctant to leave our friends but in our hearts we knew that there was a whole knew life out there, waiting for all of us to enter it. There will be new friends, new opportunities, new lessons for us to embrace it. There is one last message I would like to convey in this post: Whatever happens in the future is not our worry. We should not waste our time worrying about the future or mourning over the past. Instead think of every memory, every event, every mistake we have done as a life lesson that will prevent you from making huge flaws in the future without you even knowing it. There is no point in making enemies or hating people because all these unnecessary feelings will only cause damage to your soul and the memories you create. In my graduation i learnt to forgive people but most importantly apologise to them for any hard feelings. Saying sorry was one way i managed to restore my lost friendships and to create more joyful memories. In other words, every memory is a life lesson in disguise. Forgive and Forget is one thing but Apologising and Accepting is another value of equal importance that will help you and the people around you create happy memories rather that sad and angry ones.