Graduation day was filled with such mixed emotions for me. I was proud to have done it, and at the same time I was heartbroken knowing I will never actually see most of my friends ever again as everyone would head off to their own countries. School and University lives fly by so fast, we only start to realize what we've just lost quite a while after they are gone.
What you say is truee, doc. And no matter how much egg whines about how tiring the day was for her, I know deep down she too had a bittersweet feeling. We are growing up. New chapters can be both thrilling and terrifying.