[quote=@DarkwolfX37]
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Season is determined by trauma and I've had much more than my years betray. I'm allowed to pine for lost youth. 

The present is the only thing that exists. It's not for the sake of the future, that thinking will lead to nothingness, because the future never comes. You will never be in the future, you will always solely be in the present. 

I believe that the general point of a graduation is to celebrate the accomplishments you've made, not the past, per say. Is it not?
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Youth is a matter of physical existence. How you think can define your age, but you are youthful.

I'm aware, but that is part of why I adopt that mindset. I am never content with where I am because I have never arrived. It assures that I will never reach the point in my life where I have reached the destination. Everything is a means to an end that will never come.

Past accomplishments. The celebration itself may be more effective if it were, say, fun. That would relieve stress and prepare the brain for another task. But sitting still in a room for hours on end does not accomplish anything worthwhile.