There Should Be No Crying at Graduations! For Reals!
Maybe I’m not human. I do not understand these Momma’s who cry their eyes out at a child’s graduation. They bawl. They cat-er-wall… Stop that cat-er-walling. (I’ve heard that phrase but never seen it spelled or written down…) It’s a happy ceremony. Why do Momma’s cry at graduations? I think it makes the graduate feel that Momma thinks this is the graduate’s ‘peak’… no, no, no… there is much more life after high school. You should cry when they get their insurance reduction at age 25. You should cry when they keep a job for longer than a year. Cry when they can talk to you as adult to adult, rather than child to adult. But they have worked hard at graduation… I think as rigorous as school has become since we had the easiest way to a diploma as possible in the history of ever…. We should stand and applaud and smile big. I doubt many of us could pass all those standardized tests, put up with the social media mess (I lose more friends than I make thanks to
