2005-05-22
no after-party?
Against my adamant resistance, my mother has taken it upon herself to make sure I'm included in the graduation ceremony two weeks from now. I don't understand why I can't just opt out of this damn formality; I only went to MHS for a semester anyway. It's just another photo-op for my unrelenting mother, damn her. I won't feel right being there. I need to fight this.
I mean, come on. I'll go to the ceremony, sit in the gym for about an hour, waiting for my name to be called, and then what? Some dinner with my severely disfunctional family, and then go home? No after-party for me. Fuck that shizzle, yo.
I know that it's important. I'm concluding the last twelve years of my life. Graduation... signifies... a transition. You will never be able to genuinely call yourself a "child" after that. It just punctuates the fact that, hey, I'm considered an adult now, 18 years old (on paper, still got 4 days to go), ready to face the world. Right? But can't I celebrate all of that by myself, without all the exaggerated formality?
Let's do the dinner, the gift-giving, and maybe even the after-party, but please, no walk. I wouldn't do it for MHS, but I wouldn't do it for Calvary, either. So let's just skip that part, shall we?
tipsydrunk at 12:02 a.m.
