If you were told you could relive a moment in your life, which would you choose?
Submitted by Slight Diffusion.

At this point, it would probably be my High School graduation day in 2001. As much as I was bummed about parting from some of my friends and the people I knew (although, as it turns out, I’d see most of them at the community college I did my first two years of college at), graduation brought me a great feeling of accomplishment. Not just in the academic sense, although that was part of it as well, but also a feeling of accomplishment in developing as an individual.

Prior to high school, I was that kid that everybody made fun of. I had some rough times, ended up in the principal’s office more than I’d like to admit, as well as suspended from school for 5 days after a situation got out of hand (That might be a story for another day.) But going through my 4 years in high school, I really developed as an individual. I learned not to let stuff bother me as much, I learned that some of the kids in the more popular circles actually wanted to hang out with me (although I was never really “in” with them as much as some of their other friends). I got interested in sports for the first time. I did volunteer work with the Special Olympics in the area which was an extremely rewarding experience. I could really go on like this all day

I basically developed into the person I am today, all of which came into focus in the days leading up to graduation. At the time it felt like I was leaving one phase in live and moving on to something better. Which was sorta true, in a way, and sorta not true at the same time. Moving on, yes, but it’s scary out here in the adult world.

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