Melancholy

My daughter’s high school graduation (yesterday) has left me feeling somewhat melancholy today.  I am not sure why.  I guess there is something so final about high school graduation, isn’t there?

I mean, it’s a real milestone.  Like a transition somehow from kid to adult.  This, more than anything else, seems to have brought it home to me.  I keep seeing that little tiny girl on her first day of Kindergarten.  A group of us parents hung around and finally the teacher laughingly shooed us away and told us we could go home now.  We all laughed  … none of us were sure what to do.

Again … I am not sure what to do … carry on I guess.  They do grow up somehow …  in spite of us …