Graduation Goggles
A term that I’ve learned from HIMYM.
It sounds ridiculous that I’m relating my life to sitcom, but yeah, I’m doing it anyway.
Let me first explain what it means. It’s a version of what I’ve deduced it to be since I can’t remember the exact word-for-word to it. Perhaps this theory really do exists, but I’ve only first heard from it from HIMYM.
Graduation goggles is a kind of emotion, illusion or even vision that will present itself before you leave or end an important/significant phase in life. It makes you see the good, the fun and the fondness you once had (or is still having) in this stage of life, meaning everything positive, everything all so memorable and delicate to you. That is even when the good is only 40% and the bad is 60% (vice versa).
In short, you’ll see the good out of everything, everything that can even be possibly bad in the past. It leaves you in this overwhelming emotional rush that you’ll start to feel helpless and doubtful if the next stage will lead to something better. You’ll feel hesitant about leaving, you might even start missing it all even when you’ve been strucked by awful experiences.
I first had it on my last day of my primary school. Remember my mad claim about super good and detailed memories to my life? This is one of the ones that got jotted down in my mind.
As I walked out of my classroom of two years into the corridor to head back home for the final time, my inner voice said “Take a good look at it all. You might never come back again.”.
True enough, I never did. As I recall the memory over this post, the visions of my school hall, the backstage, my classroom, the school lift (I was one of the rare few privileged to use it, almost daily), the canteen, the staircase from the canteen that lead me up to the classroom, the washrooms of the level, … tons, tons and tons of it. They’re all coming right back up to me.
The second important stage, secondary days.
Graduation goggles never truly hit me when I left. May it be the band, or the school itself. Sometimes I wonder if I spend more time on my band commitment or school work. At the end of it all, I got kind of weary and was prepared to move on. Never once mentioned it so directly. If there’s one thing that got close enough to the graduation goggles effect, it was the missing and fondness for my friends.
Junior College. Graduation Goggles? OH PLEASE!~
NOT.AT.ALL.POSSIBLE. I was even more desperate to graduate from the nightmare stage of my life than I was ever in my secondary school.
The latest most recent pang of Graduation Goggles?
My last day at Guerlain.
That was yesterday actually. I’ve finally ended my work commitments and made an increasing number of friends on my last weekend of work. What a pity right? Somehow I wished I could have known them earlier.
All that description I’ve made to explain about the ‘Graduation Goggles’? It is the description of what I’ve got just so recent.
Life.
What’s for the next stage?
