Graduate Together

I’m watching the tribute to this year’s high school senior class, “Graduate Together.”  I know I graduated some 30+ years ago, but I can’t imagine being in the throes of the final semester of high school, going home on a Friday and then being told, “that’s it. That’s your year. The end.”  Missing out on all the Senior things.  The final moments with friends you might not get to see very often after you cross the stage and get your diploma.  All of it.  Goodbye, normalcy at an age where you’re already standing at the crossroads.

I know normal is never really constant.  At least mine hasn’t been.  But I do miss my routine, as boring as it may have seemed.

This is the last photo in my queue from when my life was “normal.” My team from work went out to eat at the only In & Out in the Houston area, knowing that I was going to start working from home the next week.  Never did I imagine I’d be sitting here two months later watching the country’s senior class be honored on tv.

We don’t know when it will end, but I do know this, I will never take being out enjoying my boring routine for granted ever again.

Now I’m craving In & Out.  Sigh.