My son Austin graduated from high school today. It’s not the fact that I never thought it would happen, it’s just the fact that all of a sudden it was here. It snuck up on me. One day he was playing with Legos® and the next he was wearing a cap and gown and staring his freshman year at college in the face. I know it is a cliche but “where does the time go” was at the forefront of my mind today. We all feel we are immortal in our early years but I’ve come to realize that life is indeed short.
Austin Graduates High School
Austin’s life moves on from here. Eighteen becomes nineteen, nineteen becomes twenty, twenty becomes twenty-one and so on and so forth. He is growing up in a world full of strife and turmoil. Was the world full of stife and turmoil when I was at the tender age of eighteen, probably so, but I have a real concern that the world I am witnessing today is truly more scary and sinister that it use to be. We as parents want the world to be a better place for our kids and their grandkids but I’m not sure I can say that it is. I digress here…Austin’s original interest for a career lay in engineering but has since been swayed to a career in pharmacy. He has learned that his “tail end of the baby boomer” generation parents are getting older. Old age isn’t declining, it is inclining. The demand for medicine is not going away. Starting pay for a pharmacist is good, it is an opportunity to help people, and CVS’s and Walgreens don’t show any sign of declining in the near future.
So I shed a tear and throw my cap in the air for you today son. May God grant you a life of prosper and benefit to others.
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May 30, 11:04 PM by Timothy Stark Raisbeck
