Notes from your Graduation

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Notes from your Graduation


And now the time has come to reap the awards of your hardships, struggles, emotionally and physically, to get there in the stage, all smiles.

Finishing primary, secondary and higher education is one of the greatest moments in life.

But how are the other youth who haven’t made it there. Is there hope?
Are their families willing to comfort? Or ends in frustration?

*Lynda, is a teacher from a well-known university. He has a son who’s taking up Engineering. Her son was a good academic achiever, an athlete and responsible to his parents and siblings. He was about to march on his graduation day when something unexpected happened. Her son died in a fatal car crash. All Lynda’s dream and wonderful aspirations for his son were abruptly destroyed. She was so depressed.

Before that fateful moment in the life of Lynda, her son was so ecstatic that he was about to finish college. He was among the early bird who paid his fees and took his graduation toga. Lynda said “I can still remember my son *Jerry telling me what he wanted to do with our house, he will make it big enough for her younger brothers and sisters, provide schooling for them, change his father’s old jeepney into a passenger utility van, and caring for me dearly all the time, and then all of these are now memories of happy yesterdays.”

The school where she was working and her son studying paid a tribute to
Jerry when the supposed to be a happy gathering of families and graduates. It was unforgettable. The college administration gave the toga, posthumous plaque and the diploma to Lynda and her husband and they fought back tears amidst guest and audiences crying, with a big screen showing pictures of Jerry’s stay at school and videos.

“The grief, the loss is something beyond words and actions, It is hard to swallow but then again, me and my husband Ben are very proud of you anak.” Lynda said in her brief speech. It received thunderous applauds and five minutes of standing ovation.

After that, they went to celebrate at Jerry’s final resting place. It was a wonderful reunion as close family friends and relatives joined in to ease the pain of Jerry’s parents.
That graduation day could be their sorrowful, but then again they found light after all, “Jerry’s here to stay.” Said Ben “For we still have sons and daughters, we will be more inspired and pursue to give them a good future for what Jerry could have done.”


At every end of what we thought is a fruitful journey, we must thank the people who supported us along the way and more importantly, God above. Our life has different avenues, each path is unknown but once we travel over there, everything is not difficult, only wonderful.