Reflective Essay

Graduation can be sum up into two: a goodbye and a new hello. I was enrolled at Mater Ecclesiae School since grade 7. For 6 years, I experienced a lot of pain, happiness, and even fear. I experienced letting go of people that was once my inspiration. But then, I also learned about things that made me stronger and made me who I am today. This school helped me build my confidence and to form my faith to the fullest. It was truly a privilege to study at this school that is why it is harder to say goodbye and to face a new journey alone.

Today is March 16, 2019 and it is exactly 44 days until graduation. Days are passing by in a glimpse that is why we all want to live in the moment, where we are still complete and happy just being with each other. La Spezia, my section, already formed a family that we can always lean on for the past two semesters together. We are doing everything we can to just enjoy and consume all the time and chance that we can still be with one another even if there are too many school works and deadlines that we have to meet especially because we are graduating students.

For me, graduation is very scary but also thrilling for we are making one step at a time to our goal; to be successful in life. I remembered the time when I needed to decide where school do I want to take my senior high but then I chose to stay at Mater, making many excuses of staying but I was really just scared to go out of the real world, where my friends will not be there anymore. I was so scared of changes. It terrifies me even more now that I was more attached to my friends and to the teachers that inspires me every day. It scares me. But I need to go on.

All your dreams can come true, if you have the courage to pursue them…

– Walt Disney

No matter what I do, I need to believe that everything will be better and everything will go on its places after graduation. I need to trust and believe that we will see each other again no matter what happens. Right now, I still feel anxious about everything for it is happening so fast but I also need to focus and remember who I want to be in the future and that will be done only if I am willing to do everything I can to move closer to that dream. I need to remember that graduation isn’t just something that is a goodbye but also a new hello, a new journey for me to take to be the best version of myself. And someday, I will be looking back at my graduation pictures thanking my friends, family, my teachers, and myself for doing the best I can and choosing to take another step of my life. Graduation could be a start of something new, something worthwhile, and something that will take me back to where I want to be. Graduation is a new journey to take, a new journey to begin with.