|Graduation and Moving on

At least once a year, there are a lot of graduations^2.

It's a time when a lot of people move on,

from where they were, to another school or another class, or out into a real world.

To graduate means^{3 to take a step forward, to move onward4.}

I can remember my high school graduation^1,

my graduation from university,

and even my graduation from graduated school.

Each of those graduations was nice.

I took pictures, I got flowers, I hug my parents.

I had the motions^{5 to moving on, I want to stay and have more fun.}

But I also want to move on.

When we hear the word graduation, we naturally think of graduating from school.

But I think it's possible to graduate from different places, or stages in life.

I worked in a company in New York for about three years.

In one point I felt I couldn't learn anything else from the company,

where the people I was working with.

Then I had hit a ceiling^{6, I felt that was time to move on.}

The way that I describe that moving on is a graduation.

Some times we are thrown out into the world or to the next level^7,

whether we are ready or not.

Other times we get the truth when we want to move on.

I have experienced^{8 both.}

I preferred the second one, where I have a choice,

I like the truth when and how, but we don't always get what we want,

since we can learn from every experience that we have,

each experience can be a stepping stone for us to be better people.

I know that I take lessons with me every time I graduated,

but some times I can be a slow learner.

I wonder when my next graduation is going to be.