It’s graduation week in Lincoln County and we here at The Lincoln County News add our collective congratulations and well wishes to others already extended to the members of the Class of 2013.
For the first time in recent memory, all four of our local high schools graduate the same week, beginning June 4 with Wiscasset and wrapping up on Friday, June 6 when Boothbay Region walks down the aisle.
Anybody who has been through more than one or two of these things already knows the familiar routine; the strains of “Pomp and Circumstance,” the sometimes humorous, sometimes somber, touching, thoughtful, wise or foolish speeches delivered by the class’s leading scholars, and sometimes a keynote address delivered by some dignitary or other, which usually touches on some variation of the theme that, this is the first day of the rest of the young graduates’ lives.
In a very real way, high school graduations serve to wrap up very neatly, everything that led up to now, unmistakably bringing down the curtain on one chapter even as it raises the curtain on the next.
Those of us a few years on, know that high school graduation is only the first of life’s major milestones, one that will eventually pales in comparison to the major life markers to come.
As momentous as it is, life doesn’t end at graduations, nor does it begin as well… .
It keeps going … every road leads away from here and they all go forward.
