To reach at last our own extended view.
David graduated from high school today. In an odd way, I found it kind of saddening. David's, without a doubt, my closest friend here in Chicago. That someone I met on the internet, and through Otaku no Radio at that, could become that good of a friend is kind of surprising. But here we are. Known eachother personally, as in routinely hanging out, for about 2 years. It doesn't feel like it's been that long at all.

The thing of it is that David's a lot younger than me. Well, not *a lot* younger than me. But still... 4 years is kind of significant. I'm glad to know him. Hell, he's sleeping on my couch right now.

Anyway - what I'm getting at is that I knew him when he was a sophomore in high school and sort of 'watched' him grow up over the last couple of years. I'm probably overstepping my bounds by saying this, but in a way I think of him as a little brother. So, when your 'little brother' graduates it's a bittersweet moment. I wish I had some extra cash lying around so I could get him a specific gift for graduation. As it stands though, it'll have to be a belated gift.

And the same goes for Finiak.

It's about 9am now and in a couple hours I'll be on my way to Geneva to go to Finiak's college graduation party. I, meanwhile, am not graduating. Through both fault of my own, and circumstance (I got screwed over transferring from one college to another - and the pre-reqs situation pretty much ensured this situation would come up). Anyway, that's two 'graduations'. I can't believe it's all over for Finiak. He's done with school. Probably forever. It scares me, because (hopefully?) in a year I'll be in those shoes. Real world. Shit.

So, Finiak's education is over and David's [real] education is about to begin. Crazy.

I think I'm most scared because I could theoretically be at the end of my own college career, and not have achieved a tenth of what I hoped to. This extra year is a blessing, I believe. I will make the absolute most of it that I can.
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