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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (22739)	6/6/1998 12:59:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Great joke, Terrence. Thanks for sharing it!! I needed something funny to read this morning. I have been in kind of a melancholy mood since my daughter's graduation from eighth grade on Thursday. This group of sixty children has mostly been together since they started kindergarten, and I watched them all grow up. However, I didn't really think about it very much, since it was so gradual. There was a slide show near the end of the ceremony, of nine years of pictures of them, and the music was really sad--"Forever Young" by Dylan, followed by "I'll be Missing You" by Puff Daddy. At one point there was a slide up there of my daughter by herself, taken on Halloween in kindergarten, and she was wearing a little pink tutu and a huge, happy, innocent smile, and for some reason now all I can think about now is how the childhoods of her and her friends are floating like little lost souls over the schoolyard and the neighborhood, forever gone, and about how much of my life went by during that time, without me being very aware of it, and I feel sort of like I am in mourning. Is this typical graduation stuff for parents? I have high school and college graduations ahead of me, and if this one was hard, I imagine the ones coming up will be more difficult, with me even older, and my daughter much closer to her life being in full bloom, and mine ebbing away faster and faster. I realize this is the way things are supposed to be, and I am so happy for her that she is growing up strong and independent, but it is harder for the parents than I had ever imagined at these symbolic moments. So anyway, Terrence, thanks for taking my mind away from that with your joke!