Graduation!!

Well, it's official, all you seniors have now finished an era of your life and are moving on to bigger and better things. Right? I mean you've only spent the last 12 years of your life learning from familiar teachers, sitting by familiar friends, and eating the same cafeteria goop that has become strangely palatable over time. But, oddly enough as much as you look forward to the future it's probably equally hard to let go of the past.
When I graduated from college I struggled with this quite a bit. Living amongst some of my closest friends for 4 years and sharing countless experiences with them, that will forever permeate my memories, was a difficult thing to move on from. They had become family, my safety net when life was confusing, and even more than that they had become my life. It was hard to think of moving on without them. Who would I make late night runs for slurpees with, who's buddies house would I invade for a weekend to do laundry, and how would I survive without the weekly wrestle mania events going on in the guy's dorms? As much as I looked forward to life after college a part of me never wanted it to end.
Now maybe you didn't have as good of an experience through high school as I had in my 4 years of college, but all the same you became familiar with it and in even the smallest ways will probably miss different aspects of it. It's natural. If you're not missing it at all then you're a cold heartless person or home schooled. (I can say that because I was home schooled.)
My point I guess is this. Cherish your past. Appreciate the memories and experiences you had and understand that they shaped you, for better or worse, into who you are today. But also embrace your future. As unfamiliar, or for some as scary, as it may seem God has more in store for your life than where you're currently at. If all of us stayed where we felt most comfortable and familiar we would miss out a lot that God wants for our lives. For it's in the uncomfortable and unfamiliar places that He is shaping us and drawing us closer to him.