Reflections on my High School Graduation – Frappes and Fiction
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Just a short essay I wrote about graduating high school
Just a short essay I wrote about graduating high school Limping down the stairs in my ill-fitting leftover-from-prom heels and stifling graduation gown as a camera broadcasted my every move and “Pomp and Circumstance” droned on in the background, I couldn’t help but question the absolute necessity of this tradition. At the very least, couldn’t they have held the graduation ceremony inside? It was hot. And, now that I thought about it, where did the idea of a graduation ceremony even come from? Why couldn’t we all just say sayonara to high school on the last day of classes and never look…
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